Taskidian [Unwonked]

Untangling my task and project management approach, at last.

Back in March, I wrote a post called Taskidian [Wonkish] in which I laid out the {excrutiating] details of a task and project management system I had been evolving, first in Typora and most recently in Obsidian.

Because of several advances — most specifically because of innovation in the Dataview plugin for Obsidian — I have been able to dramatically simplify my approach.

I will not recapitulate how the older version of Taskidian functioned in this post. You can look at the earlier post, although it’s not necessary. Instead, I will describe how I leverage the power of the new functionality in Dataview to gain a powerful but easy-to-use task management system.

Dataview now supports multi-state tasks. Instead of simply having two states, like these -

- [ ] an open task

- [x] a closed task

• which render like this in my Obsidian theme, Minimal:

Now, Minimal (and other themes) support a long list of alternative task states.

Here’s the subset I am now using.

potential tasks (not yet started)

- [?] possible

- [I] idea

- [i] information

active tasks

- [ ] to-do