Over the last several months I have moved to Obsidian to track tasks and act as a personal knowledge base.
I have been tracking Obsidian for years as it added features, but it never had a task manager until recently. Before I use Remember the Milk for taska and Joplin as a knowledge base. The problem was I had information in two locations and would often look in the wrong location. In addition, these systems required yearly payments to get syncing between my phone and computer to work.
With Obsidian, all my data is in one place so a global search finds what I am looking for. Using various plugins, I can customize the notes and tasks to my workflow. For syncing between my phone and laptop, I use Syncthing. Whenever my phone and laptop are on the same wireless network, the Obsidian data is synced. And best of all - it just plain works.
The primary Obsidian plugins I use are:
- Edit history: so I can recover things when I delete them accidentially. This works great across the phone and laptop (e. g. if I delete parts of a note on the phone and notice it on the laptop a few hours later, I can restore the information)
- TaskNotes: this is my task list where each task is a note. That way I can have lots of information about the task.
- Hidden folder: hides the folders with the tasks in them as I only want to modify these notes via the TaskNotes interface.
- Templater: allows me custom templates for my daily notes.
- Omnisearch: true global search across notes and attachments
- Text extractor: extracts text for omnisearch from attachments
- Open tab settings: makes sure the tabs I want to see are opened on startup - the daily note and task list
