Capture: Add a Task to a Kanban Board

You end up with one QuickAdd command that drops whatever you type onto a Kanban board as a card in the lane you choose - without opening the board first.

Prerequisites

• The Kanban community plugin, installed and enabled.
• A Kanban board with at least one lane. Each lane is a Markdown heading, for example ## Backlog.

Setup

1. In QuickAdd settings, add a new Capture choice and name it (for example, Add to board).
2. Open its settings.
3. Set Capture to to your Kanban board file.
4. Enable the Task toggle (in the Content section). This wraps your text in - [ ] so Kanban reads it as a card.
5. Set Write position to After line….
6. In the Insert after field that appears, write ## followed by the name of the lane you want to add the card to. For a lane called Backlog, that is ## Backlog.

What you get

You run the choice, type Buy milk, and QuickAdd adds - [ ] Buy milk as a new card at the top of the Backlog lane.

Add a date to the card

Kanban recognizes a date written as @{YYYY-MM-DD} on a card. Enable Capture format and set the format to add one:

• Use today’s date automatically:

  {{VALUE}} @{{{DATE}}}

• Get asked which date to use each time:

  {{VALUE}} @{{{VDATE:DATE,gggg-MM-DD}}}

  You can type an exact date or a natural-language date such as tomorrow.

Read more about format syntax here.