What I’m trying to do
I’ve been using Obsidian for over 2y now and have a good process for daily notes, but my task & project management needs work.
The big issue for me is my ADHD. It’s easy for me to get psyched about a project, go all in on it for a week or two, then it can go completely out of mind when something else comes along (either an interest or an emergency).
I also tend to write down ALL the tasks, even small ones, because if I don’t I will forget. But it’s also overwhelming if there are a ton of tasks.
What I’d like is
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not losing track of necessary tasks, which I’ve done somewhat with due dates and a dataview in my daily notes that shows tasks that are due today, are late, or have a priority higher than Medium
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manage projects better, with priorities, tags, & due dates to help me know what I need to work on
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Figure out how to incorporate a Gannt chart so I can see where I am in a project, including what’s been done & what is left.
Things I have tried
I ditched Todoist in December to go all in on Obsidian, using both the Tasks & Projects plugins. tbh, the same issues I had in Todoist (overwhelm & losing track) are still there in Obsidian, which makes this a clear ‘me’ issue.
Task management is OK. My aforementioned dataview helps, but I tend to have a LOT of tasks as I need to note it down and when I look at notes with lots of tasks it easily becomes overwhelming. My brain constantly forgetting doesn’t help
As far as the Projects plugin, I’m not sure I’m using it right. It feels like each note in the table should be a task, perhaps with subtasks in the note. But I also have research and other notes, and those don’t seem like they belong in the Project table. Maybe Projects isn’t right for what I want to do, though I really like being able to make columns out of tags and then sort based on the columns.
Any suggestions are appreciated, I feel stuck without knowing what to try next.