Optional automatic action upon completion: move a task to a "completed tasks" list within the note

[therden]

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🔖 Feature description

(Note: Similar functionality has been submitted in Issues and/or covered in Discussions previously.)

A new, optional task field should be supported by Tasks, to trigger the plugin to act upon a task when it is completed. One such action would entail automatically moving the task to the end of a designated list within the note file.

✔️ Solution

Support could be added for a new, optional task field or attribute. It could be called Finish, and signified by a checkered flag emoji 🏁 (or [finish:: ] in Dataview format). The '`Finish' field should be added to the plugin's Create/Edit Task modal dialog.

If the field value is set to_list then, when the task is completed, Tasks will automatically move it from its current location within the note file to the end of a list (under the heading ### Completed Tasks, by default) within that same file.

For more flexibility, a new option could be added to Tasks' configuration settings: by default, it would display the default list heading shown above; but it would allow the user to change the heading level and text.

A possible later enhancement would support users' specifying a Finish to_list heading within a note's YAML front matter that would override the vault-wide setting for completed tasks in that particular note.

In any event: if the designated list heading doesn't exist within the note when a task containing 🏁 to_list is completed, then the plugin will write the heading at the bottom of the note file before writing the first completed task below it.

❓ Alternatives

No other currently available plugin performs the desired action automatically when the task is completed.

📝 Additional Context

This issue is being created at the maintainer's direction.

If you want this functionality added to Tasks, please respond to this description with a thumbs up - 👍.

[claremacrae]

Thanks Tom.

This comment #2855 (comment) applies here too....

Additional information required here will be things like 'how will Tasks know what section to move the task to'?
What happens if there are multiple headings in the note with the designated heading name?