【feature request for agenda 3】Adding an option to render tasks color according to defined tag colors in the all tasks view

[Ravenclawer]

This is a great plugin
The task assignment logic in 3.0 is amazing
One small change I desire is rendering tasks color according to their tags
One can only see the color when implementing a tag filter. However, In the all tasks view, the color is defined by page.
I'd like to know if you can implement an option to show the tag-defined color and the page defined color in the all-tasks view (when conflicting, using tag defined color).

[haydenull]

Do you want to set a color for the entire task card?

I'm afraid it's not quite appropriate. A task may have multiple tags, and having so many task cards would affect the visual effect.

[Ravenclawer]

Currently, we can set the color for the specific tags as a filter, and we can only see the color when applying the filter
The use case is like this
when we have a project as a page, and many tasks inside the page, and each task occupies a line
some of the tasks might be high priority, some of them might be deadlines, and some of them might be flexible.
So it's better to set high-priority tasks with #highprior and view them in the calendar with a blue color
deadline tasks with #deadline, and view it in the calendar with red color
flexible tasks with #flexi,and view it in the calendar with a purple color

[Ravenclawer]

Or put it like this: defining color at block level instead of page level

[Rocreator]

Yeah, it would be really nice. I would tell you why in my specific use case:

I divised three ways of doing it:

• I had this tasks that I have inserted in a template that I load each day in the journal page, so I could easy view them in agenda toggling the "Use journal Day as Schedule" option in settings. This would be the easiest but for now no color in any of the views the plugin shows if used the page tag.
• Set up a recurring event. It's not feasible because the plugin does not allow to time-block it, it's an "all day" task
• Using smartblocks plugin to create a button in the template that creates a task in the desired page but I will have to go there and schedule it (so it appears in agenda), because the schedule mechanism uses a different format than smartblock's NLP (simple journal day link [[x day]]). This is doable with only a few task but becomes huge with great workloads, even being "just" an O(n) problem.

It would be nice if at least you could make it so the first tag that appears is the one used for the page colour system.

Really thanks for you time in this project, it has already helped a lot 🫶

[haydenull]

I think filters should also be able to achieve a similar effect as tags, for example, creating a filterA to query all tasks with tagA, then setting a color for this filter would suffice. You can refer to this document. https://www.notion.so/haydenut/English-fd47d1843e654f5485a07ef4935ed365#7bd975fe6d07453686a22d264c228f81

[Rocreator]

Ohhh yeah I have seen filter uses.
But it will filter out the rest of the task that do not have this tags, right? How to do it it I want a bird eye view of all the week or month? Or in the "plan" section?

[haydenull]

‌‌You can create two filters, one is filterA to collect all tasks with tagA, and the other is Others to collect all tasks.

Then a task may simultaneously match two filters, and Agenda will select the color of the first filter as the color of the task.

[Ravenclawer]

here is a good example of being able to define the color for each task
let's say we have a project page named “XXXX ESSAY WRITING”
and we have to write the essay， and have a discussion with lucy and then submit the essay
for writing，it‘s a high-priority task
for discussion，lunch with lucy is a fixed task，since there is only one lunch at a day.
for coffee, it;s a flexible task, if we haven't finish essay, we can replace it with writing essay task
for submission, it;s a deadline. if the submission system close, we can't submit essay anymore.

So it's better to define color at block level, since not all tasks in a project is of the same type and it's good to have an option to define them in an easy and intuitive way. applying filters is complicated and easy to omit some tasks.