obsidian-tasks VS obsidian-todoist-plugin

Obsidian has a large collection of community-contributed plugins to serve various user needs. For this guide, we'll install Templater and Tasks, two plugins that can be really powerful when combined to create notes and task lists.

> 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

Here’s the plugin’s Github page and here’s the documentation

It’s simply called tasks

I suggest you have a look at the Tasks Plugin.

Would you be so kind as to make the date and time format compatible with https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks ?

Tasks plugin - https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks

I switched to Todoist because the free version does what I want and it's got an excellent plugin - Todoist Sync - https://github.com/jamiebrynes7/obsidian-todoist-plugin

I use both and they work well together. I have a pinned note below the calendar, with the Todoist embed.

Todoist helps me to organize tasks and sub-tasks for my projects and sub-projects, and thanks to Todoist Plugin I can sync Todoist with Obsidian by using an API key.

Maybe this plugin works for you https://github.com/jamiebrynes7/obsidian-todoist-plugin

Right now I'm using Obsidian, with this Todoist plugin, since Todoist can sync with Google Calendar. It shows Todoist tasks in its own window / tab, however its not a text file that I can edit. I can't edit tasks and I can only add them in a separate window.

After that, you can integrate Todoist with Obsidian using the plugin.

The Obsidian integration is a third party development using the Todoist API so that is free as well. It is very simple to use and provides the functionality you’d expect: filtering, completion on click, auto-refresh, etc.

i this todoist plugin https://github.com/jamiebrynes7/obsidian-todoist-plugin it allows you querry todoist tasks in a code block. you could add that to your daily note

You enter your API key to access my product's services in the plugin's settings (similar to how Todoist Obsidian plugin handles it)