Jonas DowneyFeb 20, 2023
Anyone on here using Obsidian for life stuff? I would love for something to replace my erratic mess of notes apps, to-do apps, writing apps, and scattershot piles of bookmarks and links. Maybe Obsidian can do that?
Show threadMax WheelerFeb 20, 2023

@jonasdowney I’ve started using it recently for notes and todos.

It’s a little rough OOTB but there are some well-supported extensions I’ve found for the behaviour I’ve found wanting. The main thing I’m liking is it’s flexibility and power as it’s allowed me to – relatively easily – adapt things to work how my brain does.

Show threadMax Wheeler

@jonasdowney The ones I’ve found most useful are called:
– Tasks
– Outliner

There are a couple of utility ones that make the editing experience a lot nicer:
– Advanced Cursors
– Advanced Tables
– Advanced URI
– Paste URL into selection

And I haven’t nerded out enough to dive into it, but I’ve heard Dataview is great for creating and querying structured data (a la https://rachsmith.com/creating-a-habits-dashboard/)

Creating a Habits Dashboard with Obsidian and the Dataview JS API

I finally dug into doing something with the habits data I'd been tracking in my daily notes, using the Dataview JS API.

Rach Smith's digital garden
Feb 20, 2023 at 8:55pmElk
Show threadMax WheelerFeb 20, 2023

@jonasdowney Tasks (https://obsidian-tasks-group.github.io/obsidian-tasks/) allows you to inject content like this:

```
tasks
not done
no happens date
path includes Daily notes
sort by filename
```

Which I have in my "Daily note" template to force me to remember all the things I noted as needing doing without going back manually through stuff from earlier.

Introduction

Task management for Obsidian

Obsidian Tasks