Task management function (GTD)

[AlanG]

I’ve been using MLO since 2015, so I know exactly what you’re talking about.

I have switched this year to doing my GTD inside Obsidian with the help of a custom-built script designed to replicate my most-used GTD functionality from MLO. I’ve created a guide and demo vault here which you can check out:

GTD with Obsidian: a ready-to-go GTD system with Task Sequencing, Quick-add template, Waiting-on, Someday/Maybe, and more

Introduction For a long time I resisted doing my task management in Obsidian. I’ve always worked in the GTD task management style, and I found that there were two critical functions that I could not do in Obsidian: Sequencing of tasks in a project, and having a project appear in your next actions list when it has no tasks - e.g. when you need to add a next action to it. After some trial-and-error, I managed to write a workable implementation with Dataview. Even if you don’t use GTD or don’t wan…

There is almost certainly functionality you need from MLO which is not covered here. While it’s definitely harder to achieve what you want in Obsidian, I now believe that it’s possible to replicate almost anything from MLO inside Obsidian with a bit of scripting.

As a side note, I don’t use reminders in my Obsidian task list. Per my understanding and practice of GTD, anything that’s date-activated should be in your calendar.