Managing tasks with Obsidian

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Type	Practice
Note created	Feb 6, 2026
Last updated	Feb 16, 2026

I use the Obsidian Tasks plugin to manage tasks across my Obsidian vault. Tasks can live in any note and are queried dynamically in my daily notes.

Task format

Tasks follow a specific format with inline metadata of Obsidian Tasks and some added attributes that TaskForge inherited from Todoist, where:

• @context - The context for the task (e.g., @work, @personal). Defaults to personal if not specified.
• +[[Project]] - A wiki link to the project note, prefixed with +.
• 🛫 - Start date (when you can begin working on it)
• ⏳ - Scheduled date (when you plan to work on it)
• 📅 - Due date (deadline)
• ➕ - Creation date (when the task was added)

Daily note integration

Each daily note includes a “Today’s Tasks” block that shows relevant tasks for that day. The query filters tasks that:

1. Started on or before that day - Tasks you can work on (with a start date set)
2. Scheduled for that day - Tasks you planned to do that day
3. Due on or before that day and not done - Overdue tasks plus tasks due that day
4. Completed that day - To see what you accomplished

Tasks completed before the day are excluded from the start and scheduled filters, so they don’t keep appearing on future days.

Tasks are grouped by Context > Project and sorted by priority within each group. To keep the list clean, the following elements are hidden: all date fields (start, scheduled, due, done, created, cancelled) and tags.

TaskForge is configured to also input, as a default location, new tasks on the daily notes. Each task is added to a heading that is folded by default, thanks to the Creases plugin: there is no need for me to see it, since the Obsidian Tasks view will show them to me if they are relevant to today.

Using it from the phone

I used to have a similar setup that I abandoned because using Obsidian on the phone was, at the very best, suboptimal. Today, however, I use TaskForge for iOS, which is able to interpret all my notes and gather the tasks in a structured app, that provides widgets and notifications.