#1

I’ve been trying to use Obsidian as a task manager with the tasks plugin for the past few weeks, but I really on having a widget for my tasks on the home screen. I used to use the iOS shortcuts app + Toolbox Pro for file access + a Pushcut widget, but it took took minutes to update the Widget and updates had to be manually triggered.
Now I finally managed to use my very basic JS skills get a Scriptable script working, which basically just searches all folders for md files, and scans them for a regular expression of a Tasks task to then display them on a widget. It works pretty well and updates in under 500ms. Anyone else got ideas for widgets?

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#2

This is really cool!

This kind of interaction—and quick task capture—are the only thing keeping some of my tasks in Things versus Obsidian. I like them in Obsidian because they’re contextual to where they came up. Things is quick to capture when I’m not in Obsidian.

#3

Yeah, same for me actually, I also used things before, but having them in documents just adds a huge ammount of value to it, I even link affiliated PDFs sometimes.

#4

Would you mind sharing your script? This looks promising.

#5

Sure, I can share, but I had to retract some private stuff. Consider that I’m not good at programming at all though, this is made with very basic JS knowledge.

I attached the original script, but if you have more than 100 Notes, it will not work because of the memory limitations Apple puts on widgets. I fixed this by periodically running a whole script and writing the task list to a text file being read by the widget.

https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/ekipirukuh.js

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#6

Thanks.