DayTasks

A lightweight, day-first task manager for your Obsidian daily notes.

DayTasks is for people who plan from daily notes and want more structure than plain Markdown checkboxes. It renders task cards inside your daily notes, keeps the canonical task data in local Obsidian plugin storage, and gives you a dashboard and a Task List view for reviewing work across days.

Your daily note stays yours: DayTasks does not write a managed ## Tasks section into the note body. When a task needs more context, you can create an optional Markdown detail note; DayTasks manages the task frontmatter and leaves the note body to you.

Features

• Daily-note widget for Live Preview, reading mode, split panes, and popped-out windows.
• Dashboard — a command center with your completion streak, a 365-day activity heatmap, honest progress stats, priority callouts, and actionable Today / Due soon / Overdue lists with one-click complete and reschedule.
• Task cards with status, priority, scheduled date, due date, tags, contexts, project links, estimates, descriptions, and manual ordering.
• Task List view for all tasks across days, with filtering, grouping, sorting, text search, and persisted view state.
• Inline capture to turn a note line into a scheduled task from an in-editor button or a command.
• Subtasks as real task records, not checklist text, with nested cards and parent progress.
• Dependencies with blocked-status behavior and cycle prevention.
• Optional detail notes with managed task frontmatter and user-owned Markdown bodies.
• Configurable statuses, priorities, and defaults — the dashboard and all views use your exact configured status set, labels, and colors.
• Theme-aware and accessible UI using Obsidian theme variables, keyboard focus states, and named icon controls.

Dashboard

Open the dashboard from the ribbon icon or the Open dashboard command. It is built to answer two questions the moment it opens: how am I doing and what needs me now.

• Current streak — strictly consecutive days with at least one completed task. A day with no completions resets it; an unfinished today doesn't.
• Completion rate (7d) — of the tasks scheduled in the last 7 days, the share completed, with a trend vs the prior week and a progress ring.
• Done this week — completions since Monday, with a delta vs last week.
• Last 30 days — every task scheduled in the window, counted by its current status using your own configured statuses and colors. Honest counts, not flattering ratios.
• Activity heatmap — a GitHub-style year of your completions. Hover or tap a day for its per-status breakdown.
• Priority actions — computed callouts for overdue work, tasks due today, blocked tasks, and busy days, each one click from the list it describes.
• Today / Due soon / Overdue — compact actionable rows: complete with one click, or reschedule to today, tomorrow, next week, or a picked date. Rescheduling keeps deadlines consistent automatically.
• The view rolls over at midnight on its own, so a dashboard left open always shows the current day.

Task List

The Task List shows every task across days in one place, filterable by status, date, tag, context, project, and search text — grouped, sorted, and persisted the way you left it.

Creating And Editing Tasks

Create and edit tasks from one dialog with scheduling, priority, due date, estimate, tags, contexts, project links, subtasks, dependencies, and detail note options.

Commands let you open the dashboard or Task List, or create a task for the current daily note, straight from the command palette.

Inline Capture

Turn a note line into a scheduled task without opening a dialog.

• Put the cursor on a Markdown task line (- [ ]) and click the capture button that appears at the end of the line, or run Capture task from line from the command palette on the current line (or a multi-line selection).
• The line is parsed, replaced with the task title followed by its new task id, and becomes a real DayTasks task. Multi-line selections use the lines after the first as the task description.

Put these tokens anywhere in the line:

• #tag adds a tag.
• @context adds a context.
• +project or +[[Project note]] links a project.
• !priority sets the priority, for example !high. This is marker-only: a bare word like "high" stays in the title.
• An estimate: 45m, 2h, or 1h30m. A unit is required; a bare number stays in the title.
• scheduled:<date> sets the scheduled day, for example scheduled:friday or scheduled:2026-07-05.
• due:, by:, or deadline: followed by a date set a deadline only.

Dates come only from scheduled:/due: markers, so ordinary prose is never mistaken for a date. With no scheduled: marker, the task lands on the note's daily date if it is a daily note, otherwise today.

For example, capturing this line:

- [ ] Email the board #work !high scheduled:friday 45m

creates a high-priority task tagged work, scheduled for the upcoming Friday, with a 45-minute estimate, and rewrites the line to Email the board plus the new task id.

Detail Notes

Detail notes give a task a normal Markdown note. DayTasks manages the task frontmatter and injects an interactive subtasks widget; the note body remains yours.

Settings

Settings control daily-note detection, card metadata, task defaults, inline capture, the dashboard's due-soon window, and detail-note behavior. On Obsidian 1.13+, every DayTasks setting is findable from the settings search box.

Install

DayTasks is available from Obsidian Community Plugins.

1. Open Settings -> Community plugins in Obsidian.
2. Select Browse and search for DayTasks.
3. Install DayTasks, then enable it.

Requirements:

• Obsidian 1.8.0 or newer.
• Desktop Obsidian. DayTasks is currently marked isDesktopOnly.
• English UI.

To install manually from GitHub, download manifest.json, main.js, and styles.css from the latest release, then copy them into:

<vault>/.obsidian/plugins/daytasks/

Quick Start

1. Open a daily note whose filename starts with YYYY-MM-DD, such as 2026-06-25.md.
2. Create a task from the widget at the bottom of the daily note, or run Create task for current daily note from the command palette.
3. Capture inline: on a - [ ] line in any note, click the capture button at the end of the line, or run Capture task from line (see Inline Capture).
4. Use the task card to complete, edit, reorder, collapse, cycle status, cycle priority, or create a detail note.
5. Open the dashboard from the ribbon or the Open dashboard command for your streak, stats, and everything that needs attention today.
6. Open the Task List view from the ribbon icon or the Open task list command to review tasks across days.
7. Configure defaults in Settings -> Community plugins -> DayTasks.

Data And Privacy

DayTasks is local-first. It stores task records through Obsidian plugin storage and writes optional detail notes inside your vault when you ask it to create them.

DayTasks does not send task data to a server, does not implement sync, and does not write managed task lists into daily-note bodies. Optional detail notes are normal Markdown files; DayTasks manages task frontmatter and preserves the note body plus non-managed frontmatter keys.

See Core concepts and Privacy for details.

Current Scope

DayTasks is intentionally focused on the desktop Obsidian daily-note workflow. Sync, mobile, and multilingual work are not part of the current release scope; a local API and a browser extension are out of scope.

Documentation

• Documentation index
• Core concepts
• Features
• Settings
• Troubleshooting
• Privacy
• Roadmap

Contributor and development documentation lives in docs/development.

Support

• Bug or feature request? Open an issue.
• Question, idea, or setup discussion? Start a discussion.

When reporting a bug, include your DayTasks version, Obsidian version, steps to reproduce, and any console errors. Open the developer console with Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+I, reproduce the issue, and copy any DayTasks errors.

License

MIT