Task Tracker

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A Jira-style task tracker for Obsidian. Tasks are plain markdown files in a flat folder; filtering, editing and comments happen in a two-pane GUI.

Features

• Two-pane view: filterable task list, structured detail pane.
• Search, collapsible filter dropdowns, sort, group-by, and a hide-done toggle.
• Drag the divider to resize the list; in a narrow pane the list and the detail view take turns.
• Fields you define yourself from settings — text, number, date, select, multi-select, checkbox, person.
• Comments with author and timestamp, editable in place.
• Every task is a normal markdown file that still reads well without the plugin.

Task file format

---
id: TASK-42
title: Fix login redirect
status: In Progress
assignee: Ahmed
due: 2026-09-28
created: 2026-09-21T08:45:00
updated: 2026-09-21T09:10:00
---

## Description

The redirect loops when the session cookie is stale.

## Comments

### Ahmed — 2026-09-21T09:10:00
Reproduced on staging.

Anything else you write in the file is left alone by the plugin.

Section boundaries (## Description, ## Comments, ...) are found by scanning for the next top-level ## heading. If you type a ## heading of your own inside a description or comment, the plugin demotes it to ### when saving so it can't be mistaken for a section boundary — your heading and its text are kept, just one level down.

Settings

• Tasks folder — where tasks without a project live. Flat; subfolders are ignored.

• Projects — each project is a folder with a settings note and a tasks folder. The note's properties define the project: its name, ID prefix, and its own fields, statuses, and due field. Edit them by hand, or with the ⚙ button next to the project picker in the tracker. A vault with two projects looks like:

  Tasks/                          tasks with no project (TASK-1, …)
  Project1/Settings/project.md    tt-project: Project1, idPrefix: PROJ1, fields: …
  Project1/Tasks/                 PROJ1-1, PROJ1-2, …
  Project2/Settings/project.md
  Project2/Tasks/                 PROJ2-1, …
  

  Projects created before settings notes existed are moved into notes the first time the plugin starts.

• ID prefix — TASK produces TASK-1, TASK-2, …

• Your name — the author stamped on comments.

• Fields — add, rename, reorder, and delete the fields of tasks without a project (each project has its own, in its settings note). A field's key is its frontmatter key and is fixed once created; its label is free to change.

• Status field / done statuses — which field drives "hide done".

• Due date field — drives the due and overdue badges.

Deleting a field hides it but leaves the data in your files. Use Clean up orphaned frontmatter keys when you want it gone for good.

Development

npm install
cp .env.example .env   # set VAULT_PATH to the vault you test against
npm run dev            # watch build, copies into the vault on each rebuild
npm test               # unit tests
npm run typecheck

docs/manual-test.md is the checklist for the parts unit tests can't reach.