GTD with Obsidian: a ready-to-go GTD system with Task Sequencing, Quick-add template, Waiting-on, Someday/Maybe, and more

First of all, congratulations on your great work and effort. The vault is being very useful. The error persists, appearing even in the latest installed version 1.0.1 from github I am in Obsidian Version 1.7.7 (Installer 1.7.4).

If I modify it with the code you sent, that error is resolved in that function but it breaks the rest of the parameters and inserts some that are not in that version (which also do not work). I am not a programmer and I apologize for not being able to detect where the error lies.

“Templater Error: Template parsing error, aborting…”

Absolutely lovingt this and love that its not a plug-in so I can really customize it. Already built out separate task-like sheets, hot keys to create people and then assign them to meetings, etc. This thing is great!!

I am curious about the logic for tasks that aren’t in a project.
It looks like when I try to put a tag on any task in my daily note to start processing it before a project (or in the event that its too small for a project), it will push all of my tasks on the daily note to whatever tag group (e.g., priority) that I put on a task.


Also, the scheduled tag seems to only work on the main task but then still will show the sub-tasks as main tasks in my general folder.
These are all from my daily note.

This is seriously sick. I plan to build out some flows for calendar integrations to g-cal, then the capture box more specific to ideas that need to process etc, but want to fully understand your scripts first.

Thank you for sharing, It such a simple and most effective way. I found your your vault throught Youtube and I made me try it immidiately. I have a small bug when create a new person, it seem like don’t want to replace the people head ( :bust_in_silhouette:) to the tile. I am using your base vault. Did I miss some thing in the installation steps ? Sorry, I just a newbie in obisidian community.

Hi! I also really like your system and started using it on my computer a couple days ago. Now I would like to use it also on my phone. When syncing it, it shows the following error

at new Function ()
at DataviewInlineApi.view (plugin:dataview:18839:20)
at async DataviewJSRenderer.render (plugin:dataview:18922:13)

Does anyone have an idea what went wrong?

You might not have JavaScript queries enabled on your phone in Dataview’s settings page.

Hi Alan, thanks for your answer! That’s not it unfortunatelly, JavaScript queries are enabled. Any other ideas?

Great Template Vault, thank you!

in case I have too many projects for one directory, how would you organize them in subdirectories? (and have these “groups” expressed in the next - tables)

Some people would even say that having folders is a limitation. Use tags and then dataviews to see some of them. Surely you are not focusing on all those projects at the same time, right?

Alan, thank you so much for this resource. You should know it’s been helpful to many people. I’ve been trying to implement a small change and create a pull request, but it’s proven difficult to fix.

The issue is your template for new notes, for person, meeting, project. It works wonderfully, but leaves behind an empty stub. I’ve been trying to code an extra block that deletes the stub, or instead, renaming the stub and editing the renamed file, but I keep getting an error of e.replace( ) is not a function. Even when I don’t use that command. I’m curious if you ran into this issue and have any insight on whether it’s just a futile effort.

Maybe the untitled note left behind is not even that big of a deal, or maybe it’s just a bug on my end. If it is indeed an issue, and I figure it out, I’ll PR.

It sounds like you’re launching Templater’s New Note command and choosing the template, rather than assigning the template to a hotkey and launching it that way.

If you run the normal new note command you will indeed end up with an empty “stub” note.

I just tried replacing the default binding (alt+N) of Templater: Create New Note, to Templater: insert New note (your launcher) and, indeed, this fixed the stub issue. Thank you so much.

I do, however, now have a new issue. I need to have an active note in focus or it fails with Notice “No active editor, can’t append templates”. Is this expected?

This is a Templater issue. I find it doesn’t bother me that much.

Similarly, the new note stub issue is a Templater quirk, nothing to do with this particular script. You just need to know the correct way to launch a template of this type.

You’re not “creating” a new note, you are launching a template.

Hello and thank you so much for the work you’ve done!! God bless you. My workflow is so much cleaner now!!

I have an issue though, with the Master task list. I keep getting this error:

I’ve looked around in the plugin file but I don’t really know how to work it… And I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t keep spending time on things not in my area of genius!

Thank you so much for the help!!

Take care =)

Thank you…for solving the issue that I am having with this script!! I can’t believe the problem was this simple. Will look into the code later and see if I can do anything about it.

I have now released a plugin, which for me is a significant improvement to the system: