The plugin had huge potential to turn obsidian into full blown project management suite like ‘Jira offline’ with direct acces to local folders which is huge advantage. Sadly it lacks few important features for now.
The plugin have simple table view with custom properties that can be assigned for taksks it has customizable kanban board, calendar, and gallery view.
My wishlist for now is.
Gantt chart (as new type of panel)
Subtasks (with indentation in table)
Better portfolio management (some kind of main view to display all the projects created so far)
Resource planing sheet (every task requires some resources to be allocated)
Improved properties assignment
More accessible project templates (for now you can make a duplicate of project but it refers to the same folder so you need to duplicate this folder too)
Making the experience closer to what MSProjects offers but inside obsidian would be excellent.
I believe that every Project Manager that uses Obsidian in their day to day workflow would appreciate further development.
Original creator mentioned on GitHub that he is eager to facilitate it too.
Being aware that the implementation and maintenance of all these features is not a straightforward undertaking, to anyone who is gonna rise interest in this matter I am most grateful in advance.
Honestly Obsidian NOT having a project manager like this built in is a serious oversight. It’s great that we have bi-directional linking but no way to actually organize our notes/projects?
Unfortunately everyone seems to be obsessed with providing unsustainable free community solutions (or charging $300 for their plugins instead of $3) and the obsidian team prefer to rake money in from subscriptions instead of from actually building out core obsidian.
I disagree, Obsidian is intentionally minimal at its core. Having a built in project manager like Jira is against its philosophy. It is up to community to built such things through plugins. Personally, I would not appreciate it having such a feature.
Agreed. And broadly/generally useful to a huge range of people.
If a project manager was built in, it would probably have to be quite generic. Whereas some of the best tools are very specific and opinionated. And then it’s up to us to find/choose the best for our own needs.
Except when those tools are unmaintained and broken half the time it entirely defeats the purpose and renders that argument rather moot.
Obsidian doesn’t really have any reasonable way to actually organize or browse your notes other than a gimmicky graph plugin that brings in new users but is of virtually no practical utility to anyone who actually has to navigate their notes on a regular basis.
Obsidian’s plugin architecture is one of its greatest assets - plugins like Projects transform the app’s capabilities.
Obsidian’s plugin architecture is one of its liabilities - when a plugin like Projects is no longer developed after users have built systems around it, trust in the app’s reliability is degraded.
The developers may need something like an app store that helps developers of plugins get a consistent reward for their efforts. Otherwise Obsidian’s Community plugins will be a catalogue of abandoned and/or half-arsed efforts, and that will reflect poorly on Obsidian itself. That would be regrettable, because core Obsidian is a work of software brilliance.