Advance Usage ‐ Custom Preset Tag

Custom Preset Tag

Org-supertag provides some preset tag types, here are examples:

project

Project management

• status: Status (planning/active/on-hold/completed/cancelled)
• priority: Priority (high/medium/low)
• deadline: Deadline
• owner: Owner

task

Task management

• status: Status (todo/in-progress/blocked/done/cancelled)
• priority: Priority (A/B/C)
• due: Due date
• assignee: Assignee

Other preset tags include: person, meeting, place, company, note, etc.

M-x org-supertag-tag-edit-preset

Edit preset tags

Use this command to edit preset tags, it will automatically add custom-set-variables configuration to your init.el.

Setting Custom Preset Tags in init.el

You can customize preset tags by setting the `org-supertag-preset-tags` variable in init.el. Each preset tag consists of a tag name and field definitions:

(setq org-supertag-preset-tags
      '(("book" . ((:name "status"
                   :type options 
                   :options ("reading" "completed" "want-to-read")
                   :description "Reading status")
                  (:name "rating"
                   :type number
                   :description "Rating")
                  (:name "author"
                   :type string
                   :description "Author")))))