That's a 3rd part of my Obsidian setup series (see Note-Taking with Obsidian and Obsidian - Knowledge Base Approach). Today I'll show how I tune Obsidian for task management and how I actually use it.
Let's start with some additional configuration:
Tasks Plugin
To make suitable for me I added the following:
🔸 "In Progress" Status. By default, tasks are Todo or Done. In most cases it's not enough. Some tasks require time, so "In Progress" indicates tasks that I've already started but not finished.
🔸 Custom Statuses. I also created a few extra statuses like
Critical, Idea, Escalation, Talk. They actually work more like task types to distinguish different activities or workflows (and it's super useful to query data in different statuses). 🔸 Status Transitions. Plugin allows to set transitions between statuses:
TODO -> In Progress -> Done, Talk -> Done. 🔸 Status Visualization. Additionally I assign icons to the statuses to make tasks easier to identify in the list. I use CSS snippet from ITS Theme.
Colored Tags Wrangler
Tags are good, but color-coded tags are great. I assigned colors for most frequently used tags to group them visually in the file.
Task Board Plugin
The plugin is not not actively maintained, but still useful. It shows tasks grouped by timeline: Today, Tomorrow, Future, Overdue, etc. For me it looks very similar to a Jira Dashboard 😉
On that the configuration is completed, and you're ready to track your own tasks!
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