Todo application - integration with Obsidian

[RX77]

Can you advise which ToDo application (Google Keep, Microsoft Todo, etc.) can be easily and effectively integrated with Obsidian?

[dominik_tb]

There are several options available for Todoist. There are some discussions about these in the forum already.

[RX77]

Yes, I found it already, thank you. But I’m curious if there are maybe some people who have some other experience.

[danielo515]

There are several reasons sadly:

• Quick capture of new tasks. Opening obsidian is slow on the go
• Reminders. For some tasks is important to get reminded, specially if it is “location sensitive”
• Notifications. Tasks are useless if you forget you have them. Most todo-apps have a configuration to remind you review your tasks at certain hour

[AlanG]

@danielo515

Quick capture of new tasks

I couldn’t speak for your other two points as I use my calendar for anything which needs a reminder, but you can make a quick capture mobile tool by using any app that can write to a text file.

So rather than open Obsidian, on Android I use the “Automate” app to open a capture dialog to get the task text, then append it directly to my tasks note.

Totally agree that Obsidian itself is too slow for that.

[danielo515]

@AlanG

So rather than open Obsidian, on Android I use the “Automate” app to open a capture dialog to get the task text, then append it directly to my tasks note.

That may work for you or me, but not everybode has the technical dexterity to do that (even if you think it is simple) , so for them, a dedicated , friendly user interfage makes more sense.
I’m even in the case that you manage to set up such flow, there are a lot of missing features:

• tag autocompletion
• natural language processing for dates
• easy of linking
• autocompletion of priority
  Etc

[RX77]

And could you do some detailed step-by-step instructions on how someone who is not a programmer, but just an average obsidian and phone user can do it?

[AlanG]

Sure, you can find a step-by-step guide here, but this is only for the niche point of quick capturing tasks:

Quick way to add or append notes without opening Obsidian (Android tutorial)

Issue Opening Obsidian on Android is slow, so are all solutions that uses URI/intent to interact with Obsidian, for example: Lumberjack Advanced URI + Tasker/Automate This becomes a pain point, especially with notes that usually taken on-the-go, such as: Reminders Fleeting notes Time log entries Solution: Edit markdown files directly [demo] Apps required MacroDroid (5 macros for free) Optional: Quick Settings (by Simone Sestito) to create the notification tile Set up MacroDroid Cr…

In terms of whether you should use Obsidian for task management, it’s not answered in that post.

I do GTD task management in Obsidian and I plan to make a how-to in a few days.

[berot3]

@AlanG

GTD task management

Would be curious, please share!

[berot3]

@AlanG

a step-by-step guide

This seems android only, is there also a iOS guide?

[Feralflora]

There is a beta plugin that integrates Obsidian with Microsoft Todo:

Integration with Microsoft Todo

I found this beta plugin on Github, which integrates Obsidian and Microsoft To-do. Haven’t tested it yet, but I will: GitHub - LumosLovegood/obsidian-mstodo-sync: microsoft-todo for obsidian.md

This fork (specifically the “issue8” branch) by a contributor who works for Microsoft is much more powerful, but there is no release, so you have to build it from the source: GitHub - sytone/obsidian-mstodo-sync at sytone/issue8

The fork is not feature complete or robust yet, but quite promising (see the commits), so I hope it will be developed further and released.

[AlanG]

@berot3

Would be curious, please share!

@berot3 as promised - here you go:

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…

[Feralflora]

Here are some screenshots, since the plugin docs don’t include them:

Commands

Settings

continued:

Demo

Task as added to ToDo:

In theory, it should be able to do two-way syncing of task status, but it is currently not working.

You can also import all your tasks from ToDo to Obsidian, which works.