Hide Tasks & Groups

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. How to Use
3. Features
4. Perfect For
5. Difference from Task Filtering
6. Next Steps

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Overview

Declutter your task view by temporarily hiding individual tasks or entire task groups you don’t need to see. Hidden items are dimmed when shown and can be easily restored at any time.

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How to Use

1. Right-click on any task or task group
2. Select “Hide Task” or “Hide Group” from the context menu
3. Hidden items are removed from the default view
4. Click the “Show Hidden Tasks” button in the title bar to view all tasks including hidden ones
5. When in “Show Hidden” mode, hidden items appear dimmed with a badge (●)
6. Right-click a hidden item and select “Unhide” to restore it
7. Click “Clear Hidden Tasks” to unhide everything and return to normal view

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Features

• Selective Hiding — Hide individual tasks or entire task groups (npm, maven, etc.)
• Hierarchical — Hiding a group automatically hides all tasks within it
• Visual Feedback — Hidden items appear dimmed with a badge when viewing all tasks
• Toggle Mode — Quickly switch between filtered view and showing all tasks
• Persistent — Hidden state is saved across Visual Studio Code sessions
• Easy Restore — Unhide individual items or clear all hidden tasks at once

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Perfect For

• Hiding rarely-used task types in large monorepos
• Temporarily removing test or build tasks from view
• Focusing on specific task categories during development
• Cleaning up the task tree without permanently removing tasks

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Difference from Task Filtering

	Hide Tasks	.tasksignore / Exclude
Scope	Per-task or per-group	File/pattern-based
Reversibility	Easily toggle back on	Edit ignore file
Use case	Temporary declutter	Permanently exclude task files
Granularity	Individual tasks within a type	Entire files or directories

For permanently excluding files from task discovery, use Task Filtering with .tasksignore.

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Next Steps

• Task Filtering — Exclude files using .tasksignore
• .tasksignore Reference — .tasksignore syntax and examples
• Configuration — Full settings reference