#1

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Features

  • @context is treated as #tags. You can ctrl click on them.
  • +Project are treated at [[Project]]. You can ctrl click them.
  • _ in +Projects to represent spaces. Ex +Hello_World
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Todo's in Obsidian syncing with todo.txt file
#2

This could turn out useful, thanks for starting it. I especially like the idea of @context tags and +project links.

Am I assuming right that it currently is only basic manual editing, so Iā€™d have to mark finished tasks (x YYYY-MM-DD) myself, and handle rec:, rec:+, due: and t: elsewhere (like in Todour which I currently use)?

Is it possible to have the todo.txt file outside the vault?

#3

Thanks! Iā€™d love to expand it to include more features I just not sure where to go next. I was going to start using it day to day and see if anything popped out.

Thatā€™s correct. If its useful I could build a view that has checkboxes that handles some of this. Or add a hotkey that ā€œdonesā€ the current line. What do you think would be useful here?

Hmm. I donā€™t know how to open a file in obsidian that is outside the vault. Maybe symlink it into the vault?

#4

Good question. Personally, I use Todour on Linux and Markor on Android to handle all this. Maybe letā€™s ask others what theyā€™d like in Obsidian.

Thinking about it, Iā€™d probably want to use ā€œDoneā€ most, and maybe a method to clear out todo.txt by moving the ā€œdoneā€ items into done.txt (as Todour does). Problem with done.txt would be accessing it, to get Obsidian links to what was done ā€¦ Hmm.

Thatā€™s a good idea. I already use a symlink for my shopping list, so it gets syncā€™ed to my smartphone.

As I mentioned somewhere else, there are even JS implementations for handling todo.txt, if you need some inspiration:

#5

This is awesome, thank you for doing this, would be great to have a pane that lets us have this open all the time and also sort, filter etcā€¦

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#6

Hey, when I activate to detect all filetypes and click on the .txt file, it opens in the standard application. When I rename it to todo.md, the plugin also doesnā€™t work. Maybe Iā€™m doing something wrong? Thanks for any help! :slight_smile:

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@phlind Very strange I dont even have that option checked. The plugin assumes the extension is .txt. Is it possible you have a different plugin enabled competing for the .txt extension like obsidian-releases/community-plugins.json at master Ā· obsidianmd/obsidian-releases Ā· GitHub

#8

@trashhalo Thanks, it works now. I had to deactivate the option to detect all filetypes. They donā€™t seem to work together.

#9

Ill put a call-out in the readme!! thank you

#10

At the moment it doesnā€™t recognize projects like +Project-Name right? Would it be possible to make that work?

Quick tip for those using the vim mode: You can select all lines and type :sort to sort for priority. :wink:

Edit: Cmd-clicking +Projects doesnā€™t work for me on macOs.

#11

At the moment it doesnā€™t recognize projects like +Project-Name right? Would it be possible to make that work?

yep easy peasy. will do tonight

Edit: Cmd-clicking +Projects doesnā€™t work for me on macOs.

Do you want that to work? I can do that to. right now its ctrl click

#12

First of all, thank you very much for this.

I am testing it but seems like ctrl+click is not working.

I am using obsidian 0.12.10 and windows.

#13

Thanks for this useful plugin. Iā€™ve been testing it out as I transition my tasks to the todo.txt paradigm. Iā€™m attempting the cmd+click +project or @context but the only thing that happens is the search panel appears with no results (despite having items tagged with them). What is supposed to happen?