Add Custom Task Icons for Kanban Columns

[vsme]

Demo:

2025-06-12.00.31.45.1.mov

Features

• Allow setting custom task symbols for each Kanban column
• Automatically apply the symbol when cards are dragged to columns with custom task symbols

Discussions

#1056 #1108

Internationalization

• Added translations for both English and Chinese

Technical Details

## Close
%% kanban-column: symbol=- %%

- [-] Todo
- [-] World


## Done
%% kanban-column: symbol=? %%

**完成**
- [?] Close ✅ 2025-06-12

New task operation interface

[Peggy-Guo]

OMG this is exactly what I am looking for!!! Thank you so much for developing this feature!!!

[Peggy-Guo]

Hi! I was wondering if you could also add one more thing to your branch here.

By now, only the cards that "dragged" to the column or "added" will be added the symbol, but I am wondering if it is possible to make every task inside the column to have the symbol?

To be more detailed:
The Tasks plugin has a feature to create repeated tasks, so if I complete a repeated tasks, it will automatically create a new one above my current one. And this newly created task is not recognized by your feature, so even the task was created under the column, the symbol was not added on.

It would be super helpful to me if you could fix/add this to your feature! I very much appreciate your time!

[vsme]

Hi! I was wondering if you could also add one more thing to your branch here.

By now, only the cards that "dragged" to the column or "added" will be added the symbol, but I am wondering if it is possible to make every task inside the column to have the symbol?

To be more detailed: The Tasks plugin has a feature to create repeated tasks, so if I complete a repeated tasks, it will automatically create a new one above my current one. And this newly created task is not recognized by your feature, so even the task was created under the column, the symbol was not added on.

It would be super helpful to me if you could fix/add this to your feature! I very much appreciate your time!

我觉得这应该是 task 的功能，参考 https://forum.obsidian.md/t/custom-checkboxes-and-recurring-tasks-interactions/91969

[Peggy-Guo]

啊好的，我之前有注意到task这个问题，但我想的是用你写的这个kanban的功能强制把新的todo再写成我想要的task type，但看起来不太可能，还是得drag一下再放回去。Anyways还是很感谢你！