obsidian-tasks VS obsidian-tracker

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

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 ?

22 Mar: version 2.0.0

user docs migrated to Obsidian Publish

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

See also the new querying capabilities released in Tasks 2.0.0: https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks/releases/tag/2.0.0

But you could have a look at the progress bar plugin as well as the tracker plugin.

It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but it is free and it's all local. If you decide to give it a go, try a few of the community made plugins (I use Longform, Advanced Tables, Templater and Tracker) to see just how cool and easy it is to customise. Installing directly from the community plugins browser isn't the most secure, but you can manually install whatever you want just by downloading directly from GitHub. It's a lot easier than it sounds!

Above code goes with the Tracker plugin found in Community Plugins in Settings

I like https://github.com/pyrochlore/obsidian-tracker, also check out https://github.com/phibr0/obsidian-charts or https://github.com/caronchen/obsidian-chartsview-plugin

You might be able to achieve what you are describing through the use of tags, kanban board plugin and tracker plugin. This would allow you to not only make what you describe but also somewhat automate the tedious stuff, like connecting everything together.

You should check out the calendar view of the Tracker plugin (different to Habit tracker)

Recently, I found another great plugin "obsidian-tracker" and I want to record my daily tasks with charts.