I find that a task manager to manage weekly and daily reviews of the things I’m going to focus on works well. And I get it - particularly because those complex task managers were non-starters for me as well. That’s why I created this feature request: Making tasks/todos a first-class citizen I use this metadata to add things like reminders and filters to plaintext task files.īut I’d love to be able to query tasks from within Obsidian. I also use DEVONthink, which can add metadata to existing files. I think I’ll use a hashtag to track these as well. I have personally been creating tasks as whole new links from other notes, such that each task is its own note. So, I too would value a few features in Obsidian to make inline task management easier.
#Task coach tasks not marked complete full#
I have found that, because the task manager is full of other things I’m not currently doing, but are important, switching into it and accidentally seeing many of those can be distracting and cost my train of thought. What’s less obvious is the cost of switching to a task manager to add a todo to - Lookup Pangaro's latest paper on cybernetics or - Finish that paragraph in the introduction. Neither is - Write paper, and we certainly don’t want to add - Discover big problem with the approach we've used for the past month. Have world-changing insight is not a task worth putting in a to do list. But the more creative/generative a work is, the less it fits with a set of hierarchical todos.Īs Ahrens and others write, research work doesn’t lend itself well to this kind of planning.
Task management apps work well when projects and tasks are concrete and well-defined, or are easily decomposed into concrete well-defined structures. So, I quit task management apps and started using plaintext to keep track of what I had to do. I was doing a lot of organizing to keep my projects and tasks aligned with notes and writing, to little benefit. Then I abandoned it for the same reason as the OP: I found I experienced too much cognitive overload in switching app-contexts.
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