Ultimately, all a database means is having the ability to store and query data. For now, though, you can use saved searches (e.g., - ) to pull together all tasks, and add tags or specific phrases to your tasks to make such searches more specific. To the OP: there are a few features yet to be implemented that will make task management in Obsidian really powerful-namely embedded searches.
I haven’t really built out workflows for Obsidian task management yet, but the ideas are forming. Nowadays I keep my tasks and projects in plain text. (My life circumstances also changed, which helped, I’m sure I used to manage a variety of initiatives, now I’m mostly an independent researcher.) To wit, after ~10 years of Todoist, then OmniFocus, as a “power user”, I quit task managers. This is rooted in the notion of reducing cognitive overload: when I’m trying to juggle multiple projects, all of which have undefined, creative demands on my attention, I found trying to keep clean, hard edges added distracting janitorial work without facilitating clarity. After years of keeping well-defined edges, I have developed the opposite philosophy. Notion can do it fairly well (though it can be slow and no backlinks) but Obsidian is definitely going to be that tool for me once those improvements to transclusions are there. So condensing down to a single tool that is always front and center is huge for me.
For me, the more tools I use the less chance there is that it will work well for me. I can obviously migrate tasks to a task manager but that introduces friction that probably means it won’t get done and things get lost. The same goes for project notes/tasks on the same page. If I switch to the task manager to write the task I might lose my train of thought for the note, and vice versa. I have ADHD so if I’m typing up an idea and think of a task being able to just write it right away is huge. For me, I want a tool that is at least competent at both notes and tasks for a few reasons but mainly the idea of Interstitial Journaling (mixing notes and tasks as things come to me). Like jespis says a lot of people will recommend a separate task manager. You don’t have to go the original location to make changes. Notion let’s you embed databases with a filtered view to only see the rows that match the filter and that data can be edited within the embedded view. Speaking from the view of Obsidian it requires two things to at least be on par with Notion: transcludable searches and editable transclusions (specifically checkboxes). I have used Notion as a task manager in the past, and for me it worked well.
0 kommentar(er)
