Why does property based task identification still sets #task tag?

[ky1ejs]

First of all, thank you so much for TaskNotes, it's super clear how thoughtfully made it is and how much effort went into making it!

The question

I've enabled Task Identification via Property in the TaskNote settings but whenever I create a Task, TaskNote still assigns #task to the tags property.

Is there a way to disable this? Since I'm identifying by a specific property key and value, I don't need it to be also tagged as a #task.

Example screen recording

Screen.Recording.2025-11-05.at.5.33.12.PM.mov

[ky1ejs]

Hmmm, after a bit more digging, it seems that code intends to only set the the #task tag when "task" based identification is enabled:

tasknotes/src/services/TaskService.ts

Lines 196 to 201 in aaa6add

	if (this.plugin.settings.taskIdentificationMethod === "tag") {
	if (!tagsArray.includes(this.plugin.settings.taskTag)) {
	tagsArray = [this.plugin.settings.taskTag, ...tagsArray];
	}
	}

But as you can see from the screen recording above, this is not working

[ky1ejs]

Ah... I can see that an issue has been created already for this and @callumalpass has also pushed a commit to fix it for the upcoming 4.0.0 release:

• Issue: [Bug]: Tags: task will be added to the note by default, even when Identify tasks by is set as Property instead of Tag #843
• Commit: ddd7d5c

@callumalpass when do you intend to release 4.0.0? Is there a way that the fix for this bug could be released in a minor version prior to that? 🙏🏼

[callumalpass]

Thanks for analysis, @ky1ejs . I'm hoping to release v4 on Sunday now that Obsidian 1.10.3 is public. If not this Sunday, then almost certainly the following Sunday.

[ky1ejs]

Super, awesome stuff! Thanks once again for all your work on this! It's been exactly what I wanted from my tasks in Obsidian. I hope I can carve out time in the future to help out.