Support Internal Link-Based Project Assignment in Project View

[TN-L]

Summary

Currently, Task Genius’s Project View groups tasks only by project tags like #project/myproject. This request is to add support for internal Obsidian links (e.g., [[Project X]]) as an alternative way to assign tasks to projects for automatic grouping.

Issue

• Internal links for project assignment allow for better context, navigation, and automatic updates on renames.
• The Project View ignores tasks linked only via internal links, making them excluded from sidebar project groupings.
• Although filters and searches can find linked tasks, they don’t replicate the seamless aggregation provided by the tag-based view.

Proposed Solution

• Extend Project View to recognise tasks referencing projects by internal links, alongside tags. This could be implemented by defining the respective project-files under the "Enhanced Project Configuration" or adding backlink support to the "Path-based Project Mappings“.
• Allow a setting to enable/disable this behaviour for backward compatibility.
• Either a project tag or project link should suffice to include a task in the Project View.

Benefits

• Aligns with Obsidian’s native linking and knowledge organisation.
• Simplifies task grouping without requiring duplicate tags.
• Eases migration from link-based workflows (Dataview, Bases).
• Enhances usability and reduces friction.

Example

- [ ] Write report [[Project Alpha]]
- [ ] Schedule meeting #project/project-beta

Both tasks appear properly under their projects in Project View.

Thank you very much for your work and for considering this improvement!

[chrisweis]

This feature would be so useful!! +1

[hokfujow]

I was looking for this almost exactly but I do this in a more structured way. I have a property in all my notes called Project but rather than having a string to identify the project, it contains a link to the project:
Project: [[myproject]]

Using your metadata project detection works (more or less) but the project is identified as a string containing the double brackets. So if I have an inline task that I use a tag on such as:
#project/myproject

that will show up a different project than the one I linked to in the properties.

I really hope you can implement this - it's the one thing I haven't found in any other tasks plugin.