Disclaimer
Is this plugin open source? Yes — MIT
Is this plugin completely free? Yes — no paid tier, no donations
Is this plugin vibe-coded beyond the author’s ability to comprehend how it works? No — AI-assisted, but every change is one I asked for, reviewed and tested.
Community Directory: BeautyTasks
I started BeautyTasks in July, mostly for myself, and it has moved fast enough that it might be useful to other people too.
It gives you a Todoist-style task manager inside Obsidian. The difference is what it leaves behind: every task is an ordinary Markdown note in your vault, with its data in the frontmatter. No database, no external service, no account, and no other plugin required.
Why one note per task
Checkbox tasks are excellent until a task needs more than a line — a description, a few comments over time, an attachment, a link to the thing it is actually about. A note carries all of that natively. And because a task is a note, everything Obsidian already does works on your tasks for free: search, backlinks, the graph, properties, Bases.
The cost is real and worth naming: you end up with a lot of small notes. They live in one folder you choose, so they stay out of the way — but if that idea bothers you, this plugin is not for you, and that is fine.
What it does
Views — Today, Upcoming, Recurring, Done, an Inbox for anything unassigned, plus your own projects and areas.
Three layouts, per page — list, kanban board or calendar, chosen independently for each view. Your Today can be a list while a project is a board.
Saved filters — stored as notes, so they sync and version like everything else in your vault.
Custom statuses — define your own, name them what you like, colour them how you like.
Quick capture — Call Anna tomorrow 3pm #urgent @Work is parsed as you type, in ten languages. Every parsed part can be undone with one click if it guessed wrong, and you can escape a word to keep it as
text.
Recurring tasks — written in the iCalendar standard (RFC 5545), so other tools read t
Reminders, comments, attachments, subtasks — comments are a running log on the note, you choose.
Two-way Google Calendar sync — entirely optional, off by default.
Ten languages — English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Russi
Where your data lives
One note per task. Everything in the frontmatter, under plain names: due, scheduled, ence`. Most of those field names can be renamed to match whatever else reads your vault.
Your project notes belong to you — BeautyTasks adds its own properties and never touches
If you uninstall the plugin tomorrow, you keep a folder of readable Markdown notes. That
On your phone
The plugin runs on Obsidian mobile — views, editor and quick capture all work there.
What no plugin can do on iOS or Android is put a widget on your home screen or notify youat is an operating-system boundary, not something I can work around: reminders fire whileObsidian is open.
So there are two honest ways around it. Google Calendar sync turns dated tasks into calendar events, and your phone’s calendar app notifies you reliably. Or, because tasks are plain notes, a native task app can read the same vault directly. I set that up on a real device and wrote down what actut the documentation promised — that is in the README.
What it is not
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It does not use your existing
- [ ]checkboxes. There is a one-time importer, butf inline checkboxes are what you want, Tasks is the better tool and I would point youthere without hesitation. -
It is one person’s work. It moves quickly and I fix reported bugs within a day or two — but it is one person.
Links and feedback
- Install from Settings → Community plugins → Browse → “BeautyTasks”
- Source, issues and full documentation:
https://github.com/avnibilgin/BeautyTasks