obsidian-calendar-plugin VS obsidian-day-planner

I really like the calendar plugin - it makes it easy to write daily notes, https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin.

Daily Journaling using Periodic Notes and Calendar: These enable me to maintain my daily journaling habit that I had in Evernote and add a visual view using the Canvas plug-in and powerful templates for habit tracking.

Like this? https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin

Ever since I discovered periodic notes, I wanted to make yearly, quarterly, and monthly plans. But the calendar plugin only provided quick access to daily and weekly notes.

Hello. It's kinda not efficient to manually type in the deadlines of my tasks in my kanban-board to the Calendar plugin by liamcain. Some of my deadlines were postponed so I had to change the deadline dates in my kanban-board thus I have to manually type in the new dates in my calendar.

To facilitate the creation of journal/daily pages, I suggest editing the “Daily Notes” settings. For example, use the following date format: YYYY/MM-MMMM/YYYY-MM-DD, and put all the notes in a single folder (like JOURNAL). You may also want to apply a specific template. It is also worth creating a separate note like “tags” where you will specify all the different tags to use for your daily notes (ideally start all the tags with -, like #-😊 so that once you type #- you will get a dropdown with all the tags). Finally, you can quickly find different dates with the Calendar plugin.

I'm referring to this plugin with the title "Calendar": https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin

> Not really. Obsidian has its shares of problems too, and most of them originate from using Markdown.

Aha. Which problems do you mean?

> Markdown is a freeform text-format, and works very well for writing text, but it really sucks for data and structured content.

Joplin is using md to. And if Joplin does a good job on "data" and "structured content" (whatever you mean by that) by separating that in their DB, it's a big NO for me since it's a closed silo.

This: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview works so wonderful for me, and it never breaks anything in my simple md files.

> Most plugins and features in that area are very brittle and overspecialized, working only well enough in their specific use case.

Aha. I don't think so. Which authority says that? And even if It's like that, my markdown files would survive everything, since they are a) in git. https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git and b) easy to fix since it's a text file. Gosh!

> And gosh, Obsidian has really a huge amount of plugins for data-handling.

And gosh, this is a good thing!

> At some point, it was so bad that there were multiple competing task-plugins which broke each other just because they had different formatting for dates.

Installing multiple task plugins shows that something is "broke" on the user side. It's not the fault of Markdown or Obsidian.

Just have a look on: https://github.com/ivan-lednev/obsidian-day-planner but you dont need a fancy task plugin like this, if you know your way around https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview or https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks

Since the Ecosystem around Obsidian and pure Markdown, most of the time I stay in my browser https://github.com/deathau/markdownload and nvim https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim

This is very educational, but is very similar functionality available through the Day Planner plugin?

That's Day Planner! :D

this one (https://github.com/lynchjames/obsidian-day-planner)?

To organize the day I recommend to use the plugn Day planner the same one will create a gant chart with the tasks that you intend to fulfill throughout the day.

Here you go - you'll see I have two panes in my right sidebar, the top-right pane displays the Outline of my open note and the bottom-right pane shows my Day Planner schedule for today (which is pretty simple today since I'm writing the second half of my 6k word final for a class).

lynchjames/obsidian-day-planner: An Obsidian plugin for day planning and managing pomodoro timers from a task list in a Markdown note.

Day Planner