obsidian-tasks: Add a 'priority is not' filter option

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🔖 Feature description

NOT Filter

Add a new filter to the priority property.

I’d like to have all tasks, except those that don’t have a priority setup.

Currently it isn’t possible in a single filter.

priority above none returns only medium and high priority tasks.

✔️ Solution

Change

priority is (above|below)? (low|none|medium|high)

❓ Alternatives

I’m using three queries one for each priority that I want, but it’s lame.

I suggested a not filter 'cause I think it would be more easy to combine with the current above and below options, but other option would be having a has filter, like:

has priority

📝 Additional Context

Questions

I was wondering why none has more priority than low… Shouldn’t be under low?

If so, the NOT Filter suggested here wouldn’t be necessary, we could easily use priority is above none as well.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 18 (5 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

feat: Add 'priority is not' variant. Fixes #1364. — committed to obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks by claremacrae 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

@FabianoLothor and @claremacrae, I have opened a discussion thread here now.

Cito on Dec 1, 2022

And hey @FabianoLothor, thank you for suggesting it!

claremacrae on Dec 1, 2022

Holy, I didn’t know I could do that. NOT (priority is none) This solves my issue 100% guys, I didn’t notice this in the docs. So I have gone ahead and implemented this. It didn’t take long.

As there is a workaround, I won’t do a release for this one feature - it will be included whenever the next release is done.

Awesome @claremacrae, it’s a nice improvement.

FabianoLothor on Dec 1, 2022

Yes, this has turned into a discussion of possible better names for priorities. I can add a new discussion thread for this and copy some of the ideas from here.

Please, ping me there.

FabianoLothor on Dec 1, 2022

Holy, I didn’t know I could do that.

NOT (priority is none) This solves my issue 100% guys, I didn’t notice this in the docs.

I take the point about it not being obvious in the docs. (one has to know about the NOT option, which is documented elsewhere).

So I have gone ahead and implemented this. It didn’t take long.

As there is a workaround, I won’t do a release for this one feature - it will be included whenever the next release is done.

claremacrae on Dec 1, 2022

Yes, this has turned into a discussion of possible better names for priorities. I can add a new discussion thread for this and copy some of the ideas from here.

Cito on Dec 1, 2022

I think that has all got a bit off topic from ‘how to negate a priority value’-sort-of-thing… I should have said this earlier, but I feel like it’s more of a conversation for Discussion than Issue anyway. (Issues are for actionable things…)

claremacrae on Dec 1, 2022

Correct (sorry)

On Dec 1, 2022 at 12:48:21 PM, Clare Macrae @.***> wrote:

(priority is above) OR (priority is medium) OR (priority is high)

This is probably what you meant:

(priority is low) OR (priority is medium) OR (priority is high)

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