Change the display of the backlink for a task - like an icon that gives you a preview

[FiekeB]

Hi Martin!

First of all, I am quite amazed by and happy with Obsidian in general and your Tasks plugin, Martin!

I think it would be a great aesthetical improvement, if the backlink to the note where the task originates from, would be a small icon. Less clutter. It would be super if that icon, when hovered over, shows us a preview of the originating note. And when clicked, of course, takes us to that note. If Recurring and Due Date would behave in the same way, it would be awesome!

• See example below, I am referring to the bit where it says "(ToDo Lijst > Inbox)"

Testing Tasks plugin 📅 2021-06-14 ✅ 2021-06-02 (ToDo Lijst > Inbox)

• I would like it to be something like this, where [[some-meaningfull-icon]] is an imagelink to (ToDo Lijst > Inbox ) and so all we are visibly left with is the icon, instead of a - very useful but not very pleasing to the eye - text link.

Testing Tasks plugin 📅 2021-06-14 ✅ 2021-06-02 | ![[some-meaningful-icon]] (ToDo Lijst > Inbox )

I don't think it would mean you need to major re-think the inner workings of the plugin. As far as I understand, this should be possible with minor adaptation of the code and the adding of some CSS. But I may be wrong, I'm not a coder.

What are your thoughts on this idea?

[schemar]

Interesting idea. It somewhat ties in with #108, I think. I wouldn't generally replace the text with an icon. I often use the text for immediate context of a task where the description might not be unique enough. But maybe a config setting could be used as well.