Automatic creation date that works across multiple lines

[hmijail]

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🔖 Feature description

This is a summary of issue #2786 , which itself gathered previous issues/discussions, then took some discussion to clarify the feature, and ended on a promising note.

Scenario

1. I have a task that's filled out. It might or might not have a creation date.
2. The caret is at the end of the line. I press Enter, which will create a new task.
3. The new task is created. The creation date is added after the caret. Hence, the caret is in a good position to just type and fill in the new task's text.
4. The task text is finished. I press Enter, which will create a new task. Note that the caret is still before the emoji+date.
5. The text that was after the caret is moved to the new line. This removes the creation date from the previous task. This will happen with any new task created automatically.

✔️ Solution

The desired behavior is:
5. The old task should keep the date it had. The new task should be created with its own creation date.

To do this, maybe the plugin could detect on an Enter press that the caret is:

1. in a task line and
2. there's only emoji+dates after the caret,

and then move to the next line without dragging them on.

❓ Alternatives

Issue #2786 discussed that Obsidian doesn't give to the Tasks plugin any context to distinguish whether the task that is being edited was created moments ago or is an old one. This makes it difficult or impossible to e.g. give an automatic creation date only to a task that was created a moment ago and got some text typed in; by then, it's just another old task.

As a workaround, the idea of "leaving behind" the emoji+date when they're the only thing after the caret might be a good way to sidestep the lack of context; and this should keep working for every new created task in a list, without requiring new hotkeys nor mouse/cursor navigation.

📝 Additional Context

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[claremacrae]

Unfortunately this ticket is a misunderstanding of my comment #2786 (comment).

[claremacrae]

Thank you for taking the time to write this up - my understanding of what you were suggesting was independent of Creation Date.

I've now written it up in:

• When user presses Return with the cursor in the middle of a task line, move cursor to end of line instead of dividing line in two #2862

5. The old task should keep the date it had. The new task should be created with its own creation date.

No, as explained in #2786, this will not be done, so I must unfortunately close this near-repeat of that ticket.

[hmijail]

Sorry, clearly I misunderstood.

[claremacrae]

Sorry, clearly I misunderstood.

Absolutely no apology needed - and thank you for your time to help suggest additions to Tasks! ❤️