ProdLife

ProdLife turns Obsidian into one coherent daily productivity system. It replaces the built-in Daily notes workflow, rolls unfinished work forward without flattening its structure, handles reminders in the formats you already use, and makes progress visible through streaks, achievements, and a GitHub-style heatmap.

Everything stays local in your vault. ProdLife has no account, analytics, network requests, or paid service.

Features

• A complete daily-note workflow: open or create today from the ribbon or command palette, using nested date paths and a built-in fallback template.
• Templates for different days: use a default template plus optional overrides for every weekday.
• Intelligent rollover: carry open tasks, nested tasks, and their surrounding headings from the most recent daily note. Completed branches disappear; checked parents remain when they still contain unfinished children.
• Recurring tasks: include a task only when its compact schedule matches the new note's date.
• Reminders: scan the entire vault, notify when a task is due, then complete, open, or snooze it directly.
• Reminder sidebar: review reminders in a compact date-grouped right panel with rendered Markdown, linked notes, all-day labels, and source files.
• Reminder editor: use the command palette or editor context menu to choose a date from a calendar, set a time, or mark the task all day.
• A configurable dashboard: show, hide, and reorder daily focus, metrics, writing heatmap, achievements, and reminders.
• Permanent writing history: track words, characters, and lines added and removed—including pasted text and a first-run backlog. Deleting a source note never deletes its history.
• A real achievement collection: work through 48 task, writing, streak, and consistency milestones with progress, completion dates, and unlock popups.
• A productivity pet: Pip is an interactive dashboard companion with configurable, focus-aware check-ins and a “quiet today” control.
• Automatic archiving: archive manually, the next day, or after a chosen number of days without breaking task rollover.
• Desktop and mobile: uses only Obsidian APIs and browser APIs.

Install

Community plugins

Once ProdLife is accepted into the Obsidian Community directory:

1. Open Settings → Community plugins.
2. Select Browse, search for ProdLife, and install it.
3. Enable ProdLife, then disable the core Daily notes plugin if you want ProdLife to be the only daily-note handler.

Manual or BRAT installation

Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from a matching GitHub release and place them in:

<your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/prodlife/

Reload Obsidian and enable ProdLife under Community plugins. BRAT users can add 0libote/ProdLife.

Start here

1. Run ProdLife: Open today's note. ProdLife creates Daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md with its built-in template.
2. Open Settings → ProdLife to choose a daily folder, date format, and templates.
3. Run ProdLife: Open dashboard to see progress and upcoming reminders.
4. Use the sprout, alarm-clock, and calendar-check ribbon icons for quick access.

The first-run setup guide can apply a safe recommended workflow or preserve imported settings. Reopen it any time with ProdLife: Open setup guide.

If you already use Daily Notes and Reminder, run ProdLife: Import Daily Notes and Reminder settings before changing either plugin. ProdLife imports their compatible settings without modifying any notes.

Reminder syntax

ProdLife understands four common formats on Markdown tasks:

- [ ] Send the proposal (@2026-07-12 14:30)
- [ ] Review the release @{2026-07-13}
- [ ] Book the train ⏰ 2026-07-14 09:00
- [ ] Pay the invoice 📅 2026-07-15

A date without a time uses the Default reminder time setting. 📆 and 🗓 work like 📅. Checked tasks do not notify. Completing from ProdLife also writes a small synced completion record, so a stale copy or moved line on another device cannot repeatedly alert. Obsidian cannot provide system notifications on every mobile platform, so ProdLife shows reminders inside the app.

Use Set reminder on current line to open ProdLife's calendar. Choose a day, optionally set a time, or enable All day. Reminder checks wait for the configurable startup delay so Obsidian Sync and third-party sync tools can settle first.

Templates

Available variables:

Formatted Daily Notes variables are also supported, including {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}, {{date:dddd, D MMMM}}, and {{time:HH:mm}}. Unknown placeholders such as {{daily-five}} are preserved for the plugin that owns them.

Without {{rollover}}, carried work appears under a Rolled forward heading at the end of the template.

The settings page also includes an Add task builder beside the default and weekday template controls. It writes the correct {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} formula for you, so ordinary template setup does not require memorizing syntax.

Recurring tasks

Put a schedule macro immediately before the line it controls:

{{schedule * * 1-5}}
- [ ] Weekday planning

{{schedule 1 1,4,7,10 *}}
- [ ] Quarterly review

The three fields are day of month, month, and day of week (0 is Sunday). Each accepts *, comma-separated values, or ranges. The legacy {{obligate ...}} spelling is also supported for easy migration from Obligator.

Commands

• Open today's note
• Open dashboard
• Open reminder sidebar
• Scan reminders now
• Set reminder on current line
• Import Daily Notes and Reminder settings
• Archive old daily notes
• Ask your productivity pet
• Open setup guide

Archiving never overwrites an existing file. Files with a destination conflict remain in the daily folder.

Writing heatmap and achievements

ProdLife records editor changes as they happen, including typing and paste. It keeps added and removed totals for words, characters, and lines; reducing or deleting a note does not erase historical activity. On first run, existing notes are approximately backfilled using daily-note dates when available and file modification dates otherwise.

The heatmap supports month and year views, metric switching, keyboard navigation, and a selected-day breakdown of added, removed, and net activity. On narrow screens the readable year grid scrolls horizontally instead of shrinking into tiny targets. Set a daily word goal to control intensity. Restrict tracking with Writing folders, or leave it blank for the whole vault.

For cross-device safety, each device writes monotonic counters under a device-local identifier. Obsidian Sync carries the plugin data file, and ProdLife merges the largest counter from each device instead of blindly adding conflicting copies. History remains compact and idempotent.

Select the dashboard layout button beside the ProdLife wordmark to show, hide, reset, or reorder sections. Select the achievement counter to open the full collection with category, progress, target, and unlock date.

Migrating

From Daily notes

Run Import Daily Notes and Reminder settings, verify the imported folder, format, and template, then open today's note through ProdLife. Existing notes and template frontmatter are preserved. ProdLife understands the core plugin's formatted date/time variables.

If you use Daily Five, it currently reads the core Daily Notes configuration. Either leave the core plugin enabled while using ProdLife's commands, or set Daily Five's Fallback Daily Note folder and date format to the same values before disabling Daily Notes. This keeps {{daily-five}} insertion working.

From Reminder

Existing (@date), linked (@[[date]]), Kanban, and Obsidian Tasks reminders continue to work. The import command carries over the default time, linked-date mode, scan interval, and snooze choices. Confirm the ProdLife reminder list before disabling Reminder to prevent missed or duplicate alerts.

From Obligator

ProdLife supports {{obligate ...}}, structured task rollover, previous-note links, nested date formats, empty-heading cleanup, and manual archiving. Select your former Obligator template and note folder in ProdLife settings.

Privacy and safety

ProdLife enumerates Markdown files because vault-wide Reminder compatibility and optional whole-vault writing history require finding activity outside the daily folder. You can restrict these separately under Reminder folders and Writing folders; for example, Daily, FTL. Persistent history stores dates, aggregate writing counters, device identifiers, and current per-file word baselines in ProdLife's plugin data. ProdLife writes notes only when creating a daily note, adding or completing a reminder, linking adjacent daily notes, or archiving. There is no telemetry or external communication.

Before adopting any new workflow plugin, back up or version-control your vault. ProdLife uses Obsidian's vault and file-manager APIs so changes participate in normal Obsidian file handling.

Development and release

Requires Bun 1.3.14 or newer.

bun install --frozen-lockfile
bun run check

bun run check runs the Bun test suite, Obsidian-specific lint rules, TypeScript checks, and the production build. To release, run bun pm version patch|minor|major and push the generated version commit and exact numeric tag. GitHub Actions builds and prepares a draft release containing the three Marketplace assets.

Credits

ProdLife builds on ideas pioneered by Obsidian Reminder, Obligator, Daily Writing Stats, and Keep the Rhythm. Attribution and license details are in NOTICE.md.

License

MIT