How to Manage Tasks in Obsidian: I Turned Obsidian into the Ultimate Task Manager

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Ever wonder how to manage tasks in Obsidian? In this video, I explain the pros and cons of plain text task management, the key mindset shift you'll need to make it work, and a complete walkthrough of my personal task management system (including a detailed walkthrough of my Task Dashboard and all queries used).

0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Who Should NOT Use Obsidian for Task Management
1:35 - The Brain vs. The List
2:09 - Cons
3:06 - Pros
4:02 - The Master Task List
6:02 - Working with Dates
6:37 - The Tasks Modal Window
7:17 - Tasks Plugin Settings
11:30 - Multi-Scale Planning Overview
12:32 - Capturing Tasks
13:06 - QuickAdd Settings
14:19 - QuickAdd Hotkey
14:54 - Checklists
15:32 - Task Queries
16:07 - My Task Dashboard
16:33 - The Ready List
18:10 - The Scheduled List
18:43 - The This Month List
20:03 - The Back Burner List
20:43 - The Unscheduled List
21:40 - The Waiting List
23:23 - The Discuss List
24:20 - The Clarify List
25:48 - The Inbox
26:26 - Outro

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO:
⚙️ Obsidian Tasks Plugin: https://github.com/obsidian-tasks-gro...
🌐 Tasks Documentation: https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Int...
⚙️ QuickAdd Plugin: https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd
⚙️ Checklist Reset Plugin: https://github.com/lhansford/obsidian...
💻 Superkey: https://superkey.app/
💻 Todoist: https://todoist.com
🌐 Todoist Filters: https://todoist.com/help/articles/int...
⚙️ Todoist Sync Plugin: https://github.com/jamiebrynes7/obsid...
💻 Hookmark: https://hookproductivity.com/
⚙️ Projects Plugin: https://github.com/marcusolsson/obsid...

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