Hi all,
I wanted to share a plugin I wrote called overdue which is available in the Community Plugins catalog.
I created this plugin to to aid my use of Obsidian as a task tracker. The plugin marks checkbox items as [[Overdue]] if you do not check them off by their due date.
For instance, say you have items like the following:
# In file 2020-01-01.md
- [x] Something I completed
- [ ] Something I didn't
# In another-file.md
- [x] Something else I completed [[2020-01-02]]
- [ ] Something else I forgot about [[2020-02-15]]
When the plugin runs any time after January 1st, 2020 local time, it will make the following changes:
# In file 2020-01-01.md
- [x] Something I completed
- [ ] Something I didn't [[Overdue]]
# In another-file.md
- [x] Something else I completed [[2020-01-02]]
- [ ] Something else I forgot about [[2020-02-15]] [[Overdue]]
The plugin runs automatically just after midnight to update your pages. You can also trigger the plugin using Overdue: Mark overdue items in the Obsidian command palette.
Opening a backlinks panel for the Overdue page shows all of your overdue items in one location.
The plugin only adds [[Overdue]] references, never removes them. When you complete an overdue item, check it off and delete the [[Overdue]] text to stop it from appearing in the overdue backlinks.