Target tasks to specific dates

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I often have a usecase where a single card has two or more tasks in it with different deadlines. I would rather not split out the tasks into new cards, seeing as they are both related to the same information.

One way this could work would be to show tasks with deadlines in the relevant daily notes - either as an append or as a lookup of some kind. Another would be to have the note itself targeted at multiple dates, so they show up in the “Today” view.

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Hi @gmesher, welcome to the Supernotes community!

As you’ve mentioned we try to keep things simple (and fast) we generally try to scope things down to a card level rather than a line level. That way you could assign a targeted date to that ‘task card’ and then link to that card.

Support for multiple dates & date ranges is something we’d like to add in the future – but it adds quite a lot of complexity. We’ll see what we can do. If anyone else would like this please like George’s post above so we can gauge interest.

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I’m coming to Supernotes from NotePlan, and I’m noticing this is a serious limitation in comparison.

The markdown syntax NotePlan uses is like this: (assume today’s date is 2025-05-08)

  • example task >today (for an always visible task which always shows up on “today’s note”
  • example task >2025-05-10 (shows on the daily note 2 days later)
  • Example task >w21 (shows on the weekly note AND daily note every day of the week for week 21)
  • Example task >2025-05 (shows on the monthly note AND every weekly note in May)
  • Example task >2025 (shows on the yearly note AND every monthly note in this year)

Another interesting idea would be the ability to have dates set like above as reminders to work on these tasks, but also be able to set a DEADLINE for these tasks like:

  • Example task >!2025-05-10 which might mark any unchecked tasks past their deadlines as “overdue” in red, and a custom Collection could be used for these.
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