#6

Ah, clever ideas! Thanks for sharing!

#7

It’s almost like creating bullet journal pages because of embedding.

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#8

org-mode is ridiculously powerful for task managment, but it does come at the cost of incompatability.

having similar functionality to Taskpaper or imdone (my favorite app) in obsidian would be amazing!

#9

I have used zim wiki for a while. It has a task list plugin which captures all the checkboxes in the notebook (similar to vault) and orders them according to due time, priority etc. This is a really handy and elegant feature that I’d like to see in obsidian as well.

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#10

Taskpaper (or todo.txt) would be great!

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#11

Are there any news on this topic? I would love to see the capabilities of Taskpaper in Obsidian. Many of my tasks comes out of meetings where I take notes. Have a comprehensive task managment inside my notes would be awesome.

I used Org Mode in the past … but it was not really practically for me … to complex and to many keyboard bindings to remember. With the capabilities of Obsidian it should be possible to at least implement the basics of Org Mode in a much more user friendly way.

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#12

While maybe note the desired route, que new query feature allows for creating a note with a saved search to all open tasks with this code fence:

```query
/- \[ \].*/
```
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#13

That gets me a long way to where I need to get to. If I can set some useful exclusion filters (ie. don’t show tasks not yet due) it will be great.

#14

See the Vantage plugin. You can use it to generate date-based searches of your daily notes.

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#15

I don’t yet have tasks in daily notes as I’m coming from Roam and they are with project pages but I’m sure this will help @ryanjamurphy

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#16

Hey guys, it’s awesome to see this posts still active since it would be amazing to see this develop further.

personally I’ve gone through every app, org-mode is my second favorite, but lately I moved to Notion due to it’s endless customization of filtered views.

Your Experience

I’d love to know if for those of you who manage your tasks 100% in Obsidian, how has the experience been so far.

I plan to try to move my task managment set up from Notion to Obsidian once there is a Mobile app,(for easy capture of new tasks and ideas)

but until then I’d love to know other’s experiences, specially I’d love to know if there is anyone with a GTD like approach. (rather than a set-up based on date) of course if your set-up is more date / daily note based, I’d love to hear about it too

Thanks!

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#17

I had been an Omnifocus user for many, many years and like others above found the swapping between not only between apps, but often between platforms too much of a hassle. With Roam and some plugins, it became very easy to have projects and tasks on the same page, and then use the Roam Toolkit plugin to quickly adjust dates eg, CTRL-ALT-UP add a day, CTRL-ALT-PGUP add a week. Roam’s backlinking then would just pull everything in. Never really did like the date formatting of January 27th, 2021 though.

For reasons aplently I started with Obsidian over the weekend. Got a lot of things worked out, but not yet tasks. Where I’d like to get to is:

  • tasks appear on the project page they belong to
  • ability to quickly shift dates
  • pages that can query tasks and show me what’s outstanding up to and including today without me needing to shift any of yesterday’s tasks’ to accomodate.

Absolutely a GTD approach. Now David Allen might say I’m overly reliant on dates, but I use tasks tied to projects on a recurring basis. eg., “Prepare directors papers” is not a calendar item, but rather a task on a project where I can add information I need during the month. Or another example is a quick task I’m currently monitoring for payroll preparation each fortnight. I don’t want to have that in Outlook where it is 100% likely to be missed.

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#18

In that case, check out the Review plugin too. It’ll let you assign pages or blocks to a chosen date via natural language.

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#19

good to know I’m not alone trying to implement a GTD based system in Obsidian @dcb I agree, as much as I think other apps do a better job with task managment, I’ve started to see how having everything in one same place would be really beneficial

At the end of the day, the best tool is the one we end up using.

Check out @ryanjamurphy 's recommendation, there are definetly good plugins and built in tools for a date based system.

I like the GDT aspect of lists, with out the use of dates, (expect for hard due dates, which I rarely use)

this is definetly down to personal taste, I’ll keep working on figuring a good workflow for tasks in obsidian, and once ther’s a mobile app, I might move my task setup over to Obsidian.

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#20

I think the ability to mark a task complete from a query result would be a big help. At the moment you have to go into the link, preview it and then mark as done

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#21

There is also imdone whose idea is very good but which annoys me for two main reasons:

  • the price (25$ for version 1.X)
  • the rather closed license

Slated and Review are useful but don’t be too demanding in terms of date combinations, tags assigned to multiple people, etc.

But it’s clear that using Obsidian makes you want to note spots where you’re typing a note (and therefore think about it. Sometimes it’s in a daily note, sometimes not.

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#22

Over the years I’ve tried a variety of task managers & notebooks and nothing really clicked for me until I started using this VSCode plugin.

It’s a lot of little things about this plugin that come together to make it work well for me:

  • todos are in git with the project. This makes it easy to use git log/blame to discover context of todos if I forget what I meant when I wrote them
  • ad hoc, arbitrary hierachical structure, in a plaintext (almost markdown) format.
  • choice of symbols: I use the unicode :heavy_check_mark: ☐ symbols, but the plugin can be configured to use many different alternatives including the markdown [ ], [x]
  • adding a : at the end of a line makes it a section. Sections can also be nested arbitrarily. The plugin tracks the total number of unfinished tasks are under any heading (the number in parentheses in the screenshot)
  • You get the VSCode outline view and breadcrumb for easy/fast navigation. It also comes with it’s own outline sidebar that consolidates all your file & embedded todos.
  • automatic datetimestamps when you mark an item complete. You can also start a time tracker on any given line, but I don’t use that feature
  • syntax coloring so it matches whatever theme I’m using in VSCode that day
  • keyboard commands for everything
  • you can add estimates with @1h or @est(1 day and 3 hours), and the section headings get a total estimate, automatically
  • it all remains completely editable with any text editor
  • you can embed todo lists in your source files

I honestly can’t think of how I would improve on it, and I think everything it does would work very well in Obsidian (of course Obsidian would want to enforce the markdown format).

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#23

There is this plugin called Checklist. It depends on whether your tasks are in your daily notes only (this works well) or they are just everywhere (not so well). Dataview is more powerful and you can surely do it. Except this needs more knowledge and studying.

#24

Aside the many plugins that now try to handle tasks. There will be some support for tasks as first class citizen in 0.12 both for users and for developers. I am gonna mark this as closed and any futher request should be specific and in a new thread.

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#25

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