## Introduce the concept of task dependencies · obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks · Discussion #463
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Hi all. First of all, I&#39;d like to thank everyone who has contributed to this great plugin. It&#39;s allowing me to use Obsidian as a jack-of-all-trades for many tasks including organization and...
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> Within the note that contains them, each blocking task is assigned the #blocking tag, and each dependent task is distinguished in the following three ways:
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>They are listed beneath the task that they depend upon;
>they are indented one level from the task that they depend upon; and
>until their dependency is satisfied, they take the form of a list item (not a task.)
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>Here's a contrived-but-illustrative example:
>### Project with several tasks, some of which are dependent on others
>- [ ] This is a #blocking task
> - This will remain a list item until the above task is completed; it is, in turn, #blocking the following task
> - And _this_ list item won't become a task until the one immediately above is completed
> - [ ] This task is independent of all others (it is indented for some other reason)
> - This item also won't be converted to a task until the first level task directly under the project header is Done
>- [ ] This task is independent of all others
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>At least once a day I review my "Update dependencies" note, which contains the following query:
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>```tasks
>done
>description includes #blocking
>```
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>I use the backlinks in the query results to open the notes that contain completed tasks with the #blocking tag. In each, I
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>delete the #blocking tag from now-completed items, and
>convert now-unblocked list items into tasks (by placing the cursor inside them and pressing Ctrl-Enter once)
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>Although this approach does not support tasks with multiple, independent dependencies for a single task, I have found that it works well enough for my purposes, and am sharing it in the hope that it will be useful to others.