Checklist Status Sets

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by Dan

Apply Status Sets' reusable status sets to checklist items inside your notes — per file, block, or heading — with the same traffic-light icons, colors, and Glow used in the file tree. - This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff.

↓ 67 downloadsUpdated 14d agoMIT
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Checklist Status Sets

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A companion plugin to Status Sets — applies the same reusable status sets to checklist items inside your notes, not just the file tree.

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Requires Status Sets

This plugin reads status sets you define in Status Sets (file-folder-status-icons) — install and enable that first. Status sets themselves are never created, edited, or duplicated here; this plugin only reads them, live, via a small public API Status Sets exposes for this purpose.

Features

  • Three assignment scopes: an entire file, a specific block (with optional inherit-to-subtasks), or everything under a heading.
  • Traffic-light status icons replace the native checkbox glyph entirely, styled identically to Status Sets' file-tree dots — Glow included, if you have that on.
  • Left-click cycles a task to the next status; right-click opens the full manual picker — Status Sets' own popup, reused as-is.
  • Hide completed actually removes completed-status tasks from the rendered note, not just visually.
  • Works in both Live Preview and Reading view.
  • Nothing is written to frontmatter. A task's status is a single character inside its own checkbox brackets (- [ ] → - [I], etc.), chosen after testing live that this is the only format Obsidian's own task parser actually recognizes as a task — see the docs for why, and the tradeoffs involved.

Usage

  1. Define a status set in Status Sets first (Settings → Status Sets → New status set), if you haven't already.
  2. Settings → Checklist Status Sets → Assign a file or block → type a note's path, pick a status set, Assign.
  3. Open the note. Left-click a task's dot to cycle status; right-click for the full picker.
  4. For finer control, extend the path with ^ (pick a block) or # (pick a heading) instead of assigning the whole file.

Installation

From Obsidian

Settings → Community plugins → Browse → search "Checklist Status Sets" → Install → Enable.

Manually

Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from a release into <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/checklist-status-icons/, then enable the plugin from Community plugins.

Development

npm install
npm run dev     # watch build
npm run build   # typecheck + production build
npm run lint

Support

License

MIT

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