Moving Back From Obsidian Tasks to Things App
#Obsidian, #Productivity
After a few months with Obsidian tasks, I returned to the Things App.
In general, on MacOS Obsidian Tasks are pretty good. But when I started to use it on iPad and iPhone it pissed me off. Because of the iCloud sync, my task lists were often getting messed up causing reloading loops of Obsidian. I just couldn't do my productivity porn well enough on my ultimate productivity porn devices, which made me feel sad. I also didn't find a convenient way to sync Obsidian with my Apple Calendar.
All this was making such a boring task as task management unbearable and I decided to move back to Things.
While actively using Obsidian for both notes and task management I noticed a few things.
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I noticed that I almost never mix tasks & notes in Obsidian. 99% of the time, they coexist like Jira & Confluence: they are neighbors, but the apartments are separate.
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Linking between notes and tasks was overvalued and keeping tasks very close to notes doesn't bring any real benefits to me except that I don't switch context jumping from one app to another.
- I sometimes link task → project's materials. In practice, it's barely useful (except for navigation purposes) because it links to the entire note, which likely contains much more info than required for a particular task.
- Linking from Note → Task doesn’t seem to be supported if task belong to another file.
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I often kept the list of todos opened as a sidecar. So, putting a small Things App window in a split screen mode doesn't even make much difference from the UI standpoint. But. It makes a HUGE difference from the UX standpoint. Hotkeys on Mac + native apps for iPad/iPhone apps are kings.
So what I'm doing now? I moved tasks back to the Things App and now I'm using it as a sidecar for my Obsidian app via split screen.
Since my Obsidian is using Things Theme they look almost like a single app:
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