# About Getting Started <span class="related-pages">#index-pages</span> ## Basics - [[Installation]] - [[Getting Started]] - Descriptive overview of setting up your tasks. - Also has a long list of known limitations. - [[Global Filter]] - **Optionally** set a global filter so Tasks only matches specific checklist items. - See also [[Global Query]], which is much more powerful, once you know how searching works. - [[Settings]] - A convenient list of all the Tasks plugin options. ## Adding data to your tasks - [[Dates]] - Record when you need to work on your tasks. - Track the history of your tasks. - [[Priority]] - Indicate the importance of your tasks. - [[Recurring Tasks]] - Use recurring tasks to easily track actions you must do regularly. - [[On Completion]] - Specify an automatic action to perform on a task when it is completed. - [[Statuses]] - Also known as Custom Checkboxes. - In vanilla Obsidian tasks are either 'TODO' or 'DONE'. - Statuses allow you to track `IN_PROGRESS`, `CANCELLED` and `NON_TASK` actions too. - [[Use Filename as Default Date]] - Automatically set a scheduled date for tasks based on the name of their files. - [[Tags]] - Why and how to use tags to manage your tasks. ## More specialised facilities - [[Task Dependencies]] - Define the order in which you want to work on a set of tasks. - Then adjust your searches, perhaps to see tasks that are [[Filters#Blocking Tasks|blocking others]], or hide ones that are [[Filters#Blocked Tasks|blocked]] and cannot yet be done. - [[Obsidian Properties]] - Learn how to use data in Obsidian [Properties](https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Properties) in your queries, for example to only search tasks in Kanban plugin files. ## Easy editing of tasks See [[About Editing]].