I have embraced plain text/markdown for my writing and note taking, and using Obsidian for my notes, but I can’t wrap my mind around using Obsidian or another analog method for my project management and tasks.

I use analog methods for goal setting and monthly and weekly planning (Excel spreadsheets, which I am sure I could use advanced tables for) and write out my dailies to keep them in front of me, but the idea of using plain text files to replace my calendars and project/task management just doesn’t compute.

My task management program lets me quickly set date, priority, and project/sub project for each task, I can create them with a keystroke on my Mac or a button press on my phone, I can create them from an email or web page with the reference material attached, I have project templates of 100 tasks that I can import into a project, and have well over 1000 tasks in the system. Having to set all of that up manually for each and every task would be daunting, to say the least. And it still wouldn’t present me with a daily list of tasks or send me alerts/reminders, would it?

And I know there are calendar plugins for Obsidian, but I haven’t looked closely at them. I use a dozen different calendars to manage my household and businesses. How would that work as text files?

It seems like text files would work nicely if you only have a small number of tasks, say 100 or so, but I can’t picture how it would work for complex projects - maybe the subject for a future blog!