How do you handle tasks in Obsidian?

[schemar]

Hey there, I was struck by the exact same issues you are describing here. So I created a plugin:

Obsidian Tasks Available

Obsidian Tasks The tasks plugin is available from the community repos. See GitHub for details: As always with these new things: it may do unintended damage to your vault. It is modifying your files (marking tasks as done). Make sure you have a backup. Overview Track tasks across your entire vault through - [ ] checklist items Optionally, only track tasks with an identifier like - [ ] #task Supports due dates, recurring tasks, and done dates List tasks anywhere with a ```tasks block Mark t…

It is still an early version, but it can:

• track tasks
• show a list of all tasks from the entire vault (filtered)
• mark tasks as (un)done from the aggregate list view

See “Obsidian Tasks” on GitHub or the other topic I linked above for more details.