Actually getting things done with Obsidian // Checklist plugin

[@nicolevdh]

In case anyone is curious, the theme I'm using here is Atom (light mode). I change themes a lot, but that's the one I was using when I recorded this video! :)

[@naimqm]

Nicole is giving us the scoop on everything Obsidian! 👏🏾 You go, Nicole! 👏🏾 Thank you so much. 😊

[@nicolevdh]

Awww, thank you! I'm glad you're finding it useful. :)

[@nakamuragames]

Your videos are so concise yet giving the exact examples we need to judge if it suits our need or not. Keep up the great work Nicole!

[@nicolevdh]

Hey, I appreciate that feedback! Thank you! I'll continue to give practical examples so that you can see for yourself. Thanks for the support. :)

[@giftegwuenu]

You're killing it with Obsidian content Nicole! 🤩

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks, Gift! :) "Killing it" feels a lot like scrambling to film and edit every week. :D

[@loupetron]

Thanks for this video. I was just diagnosed with Adult ADHD and have always used planners to keep myself busy. I moved from Notion late last month and this checklist plugin makes me happy and your implementation of it makes my brain tingle.

[@ralphklapis8544]

I just found this video, and it's going to be a game-changer for me. It's just what I needed, and just enough! Slowly but surely, I'm finding my way, thanks to you and your Patreon group. Thank you, Nicole!

[@janimaterful]

Oh wow, thanks so much for sharing! This is literally the exact video I've been searching to find for the last couple weeks, and you released it just when I'd basically given up trying to find a good video outlining a GTD-esque usage of Obsidian 😁 Great content, loving the channel.

[@nicolevdh]

Oh wow! Great timing then! We must be on the same wavelength. :)

[@CaptainTodger69]

this video is literally going to change my life. thank you so much!!! Not only are the things you say extremely useful, but you are a brilliant teacher, too

[@nicolevdh]

Wow, I appreciate the nice words! Thanks for the support, and I'm really glad to hear the video was helpful! Good luck! :)

[@rishibradoo]

How would we be able to use dataview to reference the block instead of the page. Say I have my agenda written down in a daily note, with the block tagged with "#todo/agenda/person" and I want it to surface in that persons document, without bringing in any other "#todo/tasks" that may exist on the same page?

[@이현찬-y6k]

I want to know this too..

[@docbryant]

First time watcher and I have to say that your video production level is outstanding. Very well organized and executed. And you are extremely well spoken. This was very helpful. I note, as well, that the system you are describing is very much like the OODA Loop.

[@robertcastro4326]

Your channel definitely deserves a lot more subscribers. Very solid and helpful information here. Subscribed :)

[@nicolevdh]

Thank you, Robert! That's nice of you to say. I'm glad I helped you. :)

[@pathuri86]

so, i literally binge watched your obsidian videos today. sooo good.

[@cstaeger]

There is a GTD community plugin available similar to the checklist plugin. Does more or rather less than Nicole showed but gives the four predefined GTD categories as a filter.

[@nicolevdh]

There's a reason for the similarity-- the GTD plugin is actually a fork of the Checklist plugin. I prefer the less opinionated and more flexible version, but for those who are rigid followers of GTD, I can see how it would be useful!

[@AndreinaGarban]

@@nicolevdh Sort of a funny answer when the video began with your opinionated perspective of GTD. And no, I'm not a rigid follower of GTD. But certainly in all these years, the GTD has been a reference for all the other applications.

[@bo_trilly]

Hi Nicole, when I try to use dataview for these, all of the tasks are showing up that are on that page, even though I have the Checklist settings set to Group by tag. Maybe there was an update in one of the plugins recently?

[@Alushenka]

I'm so grateful for your content, Nicole. I had no idea about this plugin and it blows my mind (again) :)

[@nicolevdh]

That's really nice to hear, thank you! I'm happy the video was helpful! :)

[@davidbi3987]

I found when you have different tag task in one note, when you use dataview to list one tagged task in another note, all tasks from the first note will show up. How to only show the task that I wanted?

[@mjsmith748]

I have created the dataview query as shown, it is pulling in all tasks not just the ones I have tagged for a single person. I can’t seem to fix it. Can you help?

[@AlanTwigg]

Thank you for some more great Obsidian content Nicole! This was a nice easy to follow explanation of what could be a super useful plug in for me.

[@MadAnarchist]

Gotta try this one out. I'd love to see your workflow with Obsidian when making videos. You get to the point and every part has a purpose, that has to require a lot of work. :)

[@nicolevdh]

Haha! The truth is far less organized. I had bulleted talking points for this video (like most videos), went through it in one take without prepping beforehand, then cut out (most of) the parts where I rambled or made mistakes. :) The editing takes me significantly more time than filming it! I'm very happy to hear that you liked this one! Appreciate the encouragement for sure.

[@MadAnarchist]

@@nicolevdh Now I get how you get to the point, you record when the idea is hot and then the editing magic comes. Thank you for the response Nicole!

[@santicanog_]

All this research about productivity methodologies and your way of describing the information hooked me up. Thanks for sharing your process 🌱

[@nicolevdh]

Thank you! I've been interested in learning about these methodologies for a while, so I'm happy to have a chance to share what I've learned. Thanks for the support! :)

[@santicanog_]

​@@nicolevdh OMG, you replied. That's commitment right there, even if you have a busy schedule. ✨ I've been doing marathons about your videos to absorb some of your experience on PKM and retaining information in this chaotic world. It is so nice that you learned Spanish (Es mi lengua nativa 💖) Hope you are doing amazing today! ✨🚀

[@marounsader318]

hi, when using the same query i had all the tasks without the note name, unless i user group by section i can have grouping, can you show us what you did to make it work the way you did?

[@babirbara]

I'm going through the same problem!

[@nicolevdh]

The Dataview plugin has changed since I made this video, but you could recreate it by using GROUP BY file.name or something similar.

[@babirbara]

Thank you, @@nicolevdh!!

[@WilliamMelton617]

Thanks for your videos! I've been using org-roam for a while now for note taking but honestly obsidian is the second-brain software I've been looking for for YEARS - thanks so much for teaching me the ins and outs!

[@BenjaminLStewart]

Thanks for the video. I set it up as instructed but only see, "All Tags" in the checklist view in right-hand column instead of sorted by tag as you show in your video. Any advice?

[@andreasw5925]

Thanks for the video. I also use this plugin a lot. I added the todo tag in the frontmatter of my meeting templates. I now like to try the show by tag idea. Since mine are grouped by page/note

[@nicolevdh]

Great! I mostly use the tag for tasks, not meetings, but that's certainly a valid way to use it. :)

[@andreasw5925]

@@nicolevdh (almost) no meeting without tasks. That way I don’t forget to set it. But what I missed is the /waiting-for since I didn’t want to use the kanban plugin additionally. I will now try it your way out. Feels like grouped by tags is better than grouped by page since it gives me more options.

[@roger7641]

Thanks! I found this very useful, since now I can get rid of one application and have it in Obsidian instead. If only there would be way to have checklist under the calendar on the right hand side, but one cannot have everything.

[@nicolevdh]

Hey Roger! Good news-- you can! All of the notes and plugins in Obsidian can be moved around. You can click on the plugin icon at the top and move it to a pane below the one with Calendar, if you'd like. :)

[@jonathanbock2116]

Hey Nicole, learnt a lot from you thank you. I was just revisiting this video after 1,5 years. I saw (another video of yours) that you moved on to using reclaim for task / calendar management. Are the rest of the concepts in this video still the same? Is there a newer video on this?

[@busimo]

To correct you, just because something's old doesn't make it irrelevant.

[@eubersen]

Have you tried Dataview plugin? It does the same but in markdown without any additional panels.

[@lifeos-pro]

I have a practice very close to yours, but I combined it with PARA and wrote my own plugin to support it!

[@zoned9541]

my tags show up in purple but don't populate within the task list

[@javalosorozco]

Thanks for the video, Nicole! It's super cool to mix this with a Kanban (naming the columns with the special tags) now I can get a quick view of my pending items at work easily no matter if I added a new card in my kanban or it was just a random task during my daily log page... 🤯🤯🎉

[@siliconmeadow_yo]

Command-enter on the Mac! Thank you! Just one of the many things I've picked up on this video alone and I'm only halfway through!

[@nicolevdh]

Happy you like it! I love keyboard shortcuts, but I'm always careful when demonstrating something because keyboard shortcuts can be hard to follow!

[@jesuschristTRUTH]

Hello Nicole, can you customize or make the checklist panel a little bit more compact, it looks like the font and text size is eating my desktop space too much. Thanks for the video!

[@bEffective]

Newbie missed something regarding dataview command around 10:40. It returns all the #todo rather than the specified #todo/next-action. I put the dataview command in an note called Next Action under Tasks folder. What did I miss

[@nicolevdh]

What was your Dataview query?

[@bEffective]

@@nicolevdh Hi, I copied what you mentioned around 10:30 or ~~~dataview TASKS from #todo/context ~~~ but I gained in return were all the #todo and #todo and #todo/whatever name

[@PhD20]

@@bEffective I'm running into the same issue.

[@bEffective]

@@PhD20 Thanks for the support. I continue to research how others are doing. My last try was with dataviewjs this time, which did 90% of what I was seeking: Overdue, Today, Upcoming and Undated. It would seem that it can't do accomplished or done. The last may not be necessary but I thought it may serve to see how well that I was using Obsidian regarding tasks and goals.

[@bEffective]

@@nicolevdh ```dataviewjs // find dates based on format [[YYYY-MM-DD]] const findDated = (task)=>{ if( !task.completed ) { task.link = " " + "[[" + task.path + "|*]]"; task.date=""; const found = task.text.match(/\[\[([12]\d{3}-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]))\]\]/); if(found) task.date = moment(found[1]); return true; } } const myTasks = dv.pages("").file.tasks.where(t => findDated(t)); dv.header(1,"Overdue"); dv.table(["task","link"], myTasks.filter(t=> moment(t.date).isBefore(moment(),"day")).sort(t=>t.date).map(t=>[t.text, t.link])); dv.header(1,"Today"); dv.table(["task","link"], myTasks.filter(t=> moment(t.date).isSame(moment(),"day")).sort(t=>t.date).map(t=>[t.text, t.link])); dv.header(1,"Upcoming"); dv.table(["task","link"], myTasks.filter(t=> moment(t.date).isAfter(moment(),"day")).sort(t=>t.date).map(t=>[t.text, t.link])); dv.header(1,"Undated"); dv.table(["task","link"], myTasks.filter(t=> !t.date).sort(t=>t.text).map(t=>[t.text, t.link])); ```

[@JoseOrtega-ps4km]

Whats the name of the plug in you use to display the filename where the task was created as shown in min 10:47?

[@nicolevdh]

Hey, it looks like Dataview was updated since I did this video! It used to be just the default. Now tasks are just displayed without where they've come from.

[@JoseOrtega-ps4km]

​@@nicolevdh Thanks for your answer. That explains a lot. Also, I dont get the same results in a markdown file after creating a dataview query like you did for #todo/agenda/jonathan. If I create in a file multiple tasks with the #todo above them and without it, I get as results in the dataview query all tasks of that file, with and without the #todo. The same for the different #todo I created, e.g., #todo/next-action, #todo/waiting-for. Even though I write from #todo/next-action in the query I get also the tasks from #todo/waiting-for. Just in the check-list plugin, the tasks are displayed correctly. I tried several things with dataview and dataviewjs but none worked. I think in the code of the plugin can be the answer, but I dont understand it quite well. Maybe you have a better idea.

[@nicolevdh]

I can't reproduce that error, so if you are running into issues, I would suggest you reach out to the developer of the Dataview plugin with more information about what you're seeing.

[@hdubbs9174]

I had some trouble with the checklists plug-in, since it seemed a little buggy (maybe it's my theme, I'm using Yin and Yang). For example I couldn't always check off the items and I didn't like that it wasn't easy to navigate from the task to the note that contains it. Originally, I thought it was only possible to have plugins in the side-panel, but you can also add notes to it. Which is now what I've done. Without the checklist suggestion I wouldn't have thought to even try doing so! Keep up the good work!

[@nicolevdh]

Hmmm, that's weird... I haven't experienced any issues, and I can navigate to the note containing the task by clicking on the task (not on the checkbox, but anywhere else on the task). It wasn't the same for you? Sounds like you've found your own way, anyway, which is great!

[@hdubbs9174]

@@nicolevdh No, I wasn't able to navigate to the note by clicking on it, but it's ok. Adding inline key::value pairs has been working well for me! Still, the video helped me to feel a bit more confident about having tasks scattered in with my notes.

[@ceredril]

I really like the idea of this plugin, however I have one complaint and I would like to know if someone knows a workaround: When marking an entry in the checklist as done I would like it to be put in to my todays daily note in some shape (so I can see all the tasks I got done today). Optimally in the note of the original there would then also be a reference to this entry to allow me to visualize both when the task was created and when it was done. Does someone know how to accomplish this? I want to still have the ease of use of this plugin with the added capability.

[@ArmadusMalaysia]

Hi, I can't seem to get it to work on mobile. Mood: frustrated

[@GoMiashPrivate]

Thanks Nicole this is another helpful video! I like that you can use checklist in combination with dataview.

[@nicolevdh]

Yeah, it's great! Love when plugins work together. :)

[@aleksandarmedarevic999]

Great video. I created such tags, but can not see them in the right panel.

[@Fr4zn2pirit]

A little off topic maybe, but is there a way to have the daily note automatically created and populated without having to close obsidian, and bring it back up? Logseq does it, so am curious if Obsidian can as well. Thank you!

[@Fr4zn2pirit]

Disregard, I guess sync didn't sync over preferences

[@nicolevdh]

:) Sounds like you might have figured it out, but yes! I also like to use the Calendar plugin for this.

[@merqri]

Do you have a video on the obsidian tasks plugin as well?

[@chrisredlich9086]

Thanks!

[@nicolevdh]

Wow! That was so unexpectedly nice! Thank you so much, Chris! Glad I could help. :)

[@dannylevitin]

Great video for the plugin! How can I create a view showing my completed tasks if I want to review my week? I don't want to toggle the completed task on, because that will mess up the plugin showing all tasks. Any idea on how I can sort the completed ones using dataview? Thank you

[@jeffhallum]

Great video - thank you! Do you have any suggestions on how to handle due dates or start dates?

[@nicolevdh]

Hi Jeff! Last week's video might be a better setup for you if you want to date the tasks!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZSxZqmAr72qrNE

[@blue-gx5tm]

great video! testing it out... pros: can incorporate into daily note w/dataview like you mentioned and checking an item auto removes it from todo list! ... cons: the spacing between items takes up a lot of space in my sidebar and it's not possible to show proper indentation (for subtasks). Overall I'll keep it, thanks Nicole!

[@nicolevdh]

I agree with your pros and cons! Glad you concur. I've tried a few different ways and this one's not perfect, but it comes the closest for me.

[@jeep5046]

GTD - Make actionable to-do items. Task Management 1. Inbox: Everything 2. Next action: next step of a project you're dealing with 3. Waiting for: still waiting for someone to do something/something to happen 3. Someday maybe: no plans to do right now. not necessarily a next action.

[@ElektroDrrrEL]

Thank you Nicole! It was I guess the closest approach for my todo lists from notion that I am used to)

[@dyadelegroupe]

Hi, great content. I'm not sure but I don't think you mentioned the case where a task is in several context. For example you could have an action which would be "buy Y object" placed in "when I'm outside" todo and in "when I have time" todo and if you tick it it would be done in both place. Is it possible?

[@Pipivi]

This is what I was looking for, thank you!

[@KhanhLe-vi6gr]

Great video. It's really helpful for me to manage my tasks by GTD. Thank you so much, Nicole 😍

[@nicolevdh]

Glad to help, Khánh! :)

[@BIMvoice]

Great video, thanks! How do you use Todos in conjunction with the calendar?

[@nicolevdh]

Hi again! I don't, actually. Any tasks that are date- or time-specific, I put on reclaim.ai . I prefer to keep those tasks scheduled on my Google Calendar instead of in Obsidian!

[@BIMvoice]

@@nicolevdh I understand. The thing is I have so many small tasks, as I like to break down them alot and I think is going to be difficult to use calendar for that. For bigger tasks it should work well indeed. Thank you, very nice videos, I learned a lot :) Now only if I manage to get dataview to work for the filters I want to have.

[@gargancian]

Sorry to say but there are different reports in help forum from obsidian, the plugin seems to be obsolet. I couldn´t get it working.

[@nicolevdh]

Hey, not sure which plugin you mean as I mentioned a couple in this video, but both Checklist and Readwise Official are still working for me!

[@gargancian]

@@nicolevdh Hi Nicole, I meant the plugin Obsidian Checklist. The tasks are not shown in the sidebar. But - no matter, I watched som of your other videos and now I´m using dataviewJS. Still, the video was very inspiring for using the tags. Thank you!

[@Billy_Souls]

I installed this plugin and it doesn't work at all. I have templater and kanban, this is a clean install on a new computer and it still doesn't work. I type todo, #todo and nothing works, tags don't even show up???

[@nicolevdh]

It definitely works, but you might not be getting the syntax right. You should type the tag first in its own line, and then the task (using a checkbox) underneath it, in its own line. If you pause the video and copy what I typed, you should be fine. :)

[@steveharris3627]

Sounds really useful. Tried to install on iPad but I get an error? Any idea why checklist doesn't work on iPad?

[@nicolevdh]

Hmmm... I'm not sure, but not all plugins are available for mobile. Checklist might be one of them! I had not tried to use it on my mobile devices, sorry!

[@BK-ok2nn]

Hi Nicole, Thanks for your sharing. I'm new to obsidian. When I tried dataview task from #todo → it only showed the task without the file name as shown in your video. Is there another plug in to have that same result as yours?

[@nicolevdh]

Nope, I believe the Dataview plugin has changed since I made this video! I think you'd need to add it into the query itself and perhaps use GROUP BY file.name to accomplish the same thing now.

[@noloarroyo7110]

Did you ever get this to work? I have the same issue

[@producersproducing]

Awesome video - Still getting going with Obsidian and was wondering about this!!!

[@nicolevdh]

Oh, in that case, welcome! :) Glad I could help.

[@chloe_steward]

Very helpful, thanks Nicole!

[@vigneshdev9587]

Thank you, this was very helpful!

[@azkanand5832]

Hi Nicole. Thanks for all your Obsidian videos. But I'm still wondering, what is your complete workflow/setup? Such as, how do you structure your notes? Do you use folder (left sidebar), or tags, or [[link]]. I have watched your videos but I'm still confused hehe. Hopefully you can cover this in the future. Thanksssss ^^

[@nicolevdh]

Hey Azka! Thank you for that. I really should do a video on this! Let me answer you briefly, though. I mainly use links to create my own outlines of topics. I only use folders to distinguish between notes that might be named the same thing (such as highlights from a book I read vs my summary of the same book). I use tags to mark some notes as #TVZ (kind of like #inbox, for things that are not yet processed), or when I think I'll want to find them someday (like #nvdh/feedback for questions like this one on my videos). Hope that helps! But I'll put it on the list to make a video about this sometime too! :)

[@azkanand5832]

@@nicolevdh hi Nicole. Thanks for your reply. I think I can understand it, but still i will wait for your videos 😁. Oh if i may ask, what app do you use for task management?

[@nicolevdh]

Hi Azka! I use Obsidian for tasks that don't have a date or time component, and Reclaim (reclaim.ai/r/s/yYOqK) for those that do!

[@brendalg4]

David Allen didn't invent the Second Brain. There was a version on the Palm Pilot. I think it was originally called "Personal Brain". It's now called "The Brain".

[@ciaopete]

Superb video, thanks for posting. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the "systems" now though, need one to rule them all :)

[@nicolevdh]

Systems overwhelm is a real thing! Maybe ignore them all and do things your own way. :)

[@ciaopete]

@@nicolevdh my way is chaos

[@rianaengelbrecht5772]

@nicole i absolutely love the way you explain and help me on my obsidian journey. it has been slow as i am not technical and most of the youtube tutorials looses me quite early on. I am a coach and i am VERY interested in how you use the date_last_spoke to track interactions with people. do you have further info re how you use this and append to create history of interactions with people in your database?

[@Renwark]

I like your channel. Good stuff, keep doing this.

[@nicolevdh]

Hey, thanks for the encouragement! :)

[@barmarcelo]

Just started with Obsidian (couple of hours now) , and found your channel very helpfull! Congrats on the objectivity and timeflow of the videos! IT would be nice if we could search tasks marked "done"...is there a way we can set this plugin to do it?

[@nicolevdh]

Hi Marcelo! In the options for Checklist, you can disable the option that removes tasks when they are completed, so they'll still be viewable in the panel. For full searching, you can do this through either the built-in search feature of Obsidian (tag: #done) or Dataview has a `completed` property that you can use for tasks as well. :) Welcome to the Obsidian community!

[@barmarcelo]

@@nicolevdh Thanks a lot. Still learning the basics, Dataview is an open check box on my "skills to learn" list... 🙄🙂

[@idefixsheep]

Hi Nicole! Have you thought to give an online training about obsidian? I'm looking for someone to help my understand it better. Thanks!

[@nicolevdh]

Hi! I do have a course that I've released: pulse.ly/aigvotpanu I don't offer consulting services, unfortunately. I work full-time and Obsidian is a part-time passion project, so can't really start new projects right now. However, I can recommend two people who *do* offer consulting that I can recommend as good members of the community: - Kara Munroe: [e-mail] . She does KZbin videos at www.youtube.com/@knowledgeworknexus/videos - Bianca Pereira: She does courses and PKM coaching: pulse.ly/t1f5darz1l

[@dr_antoniovelazquez]

Hello, great video. I was wondering if you find this plugin more useful than Things 3? Is there any advantage other than having obsidian on non-apple devices?

[@Zereniti77]

Would be very nifty if this worked with todo-callouts as well...

[@nicolevdh]

It does not! Dataview only works with checklists and pages at the moment.

[@victormuhire]

Thank you Nicole, very helpful..merci

[@nicolevdh]

De rien! Merci aussi :)

[@sttruesdale]

thanks VERY much. excellent video. Question on the checklist plugin. I've tried using it before, but I 'roll over' my todos in my daily notes - so the same task may appear on multiple daily notes - which means it also shows up in the checklist view multiple times. Is there a way to avoid that? Also, I would imagine the checklist view will eventually get very long - is there a way to better filter that? (I am imagining using a set of pages with dataviews in them instead?) - in my current task manager (MyLifeOrganized) I have over 370 todos!

[@nicolevdh]

Thank you! :) Glad you liked it! On rolling over todos-- if you're just using the Checklist plugin, you won't need to roll over your tasks because they'll always be in the Checklist pane, even if they're overdue. If you still want them shown on your daily note, you could probably use a Dataview query that will show overdue tasks. Either way, you wouldn't need to duplicate them. Re: filtering the checklist-- yes, you can use tags for that! I only showed a handful of tasks as a demo, but you could have, for example, #todo/next-action/computer, #todo/next-action/project-x, etc. Each one will show up as a separate, collapsible section in Checklists. If you need more complex filtering, I would consider using Dataview to filter the tasks rather than Checklists. Hope that helps! :)

[@sttruesdale]

@@nicolevdh got it - thanks. Now if I could only find the time to play around with this! There is so much you can do with Obisdian, and so many ways to do them! The big thing I would lose from MLO is it's ability to automatically generate a prioritized list of todos based on urgency/priority/context - which honestly I don't use as much anyway. But I do wonder if it could be done in obsidian - but not with raw tasks. Seems like you could do it with a page (or block) per task - with frontmatter flags for urgency/priority/context and some dataview scripting to calculate a priority rank/sort. And a way to set the current context. Lots of food for thought :)

[@sttruesdale]

and the quick collection into the inbox. I forward emails to my todo inbox, and from my android notification shade all the time. But I'm pretty sure there is a way to do that for Obsidian as well.

[@elodiegradlife6904]

4:11 checklist plugin 5:06 inbox, next action, waiting for, someday maybe

[@ironmanlifts]

I think there may be something wrong with mine cause check list takes a long time. It's spinning and spinning all the time, my vault is not that big. After 15 mins it finally showed up, other than that it's pretty cool to have that sidebar there to find tags. Would be nice if it could find other things other than tags like 'exam:: This question was correct #right', for that I'm using dataviewjs. Great GTD, sounds similar to journals (e.g., someday, master list etc...). Once I get kanban and dataviewjs working in harmony gonna make a digital journal.

[@nicolevdh]

Hmmm, how long does it take before a task you create with that tag shows up in the Checklist pane? I have over 6000 notes now and when I create a new task, it takes a second or less.

[@one234569and10]

WHY is this shit so hard. you said to type out a bullet, but how you do that? Do I have to watch another damn video to learn that too? Ok, so I have ADHD (only recently learned this at 55) and learning this app is hard for me - however I LOVE the idea of it, and want to learn it. Your video IS helpful and I gave it a thumbs up after I figured out the missing pieces like bullets lol

[@mayankk2800]

you way of explaining is very good

[@nicolevdh]

Hey, thanks! Appreciate the feedback. :) Thanks for watching!

[@joeyjiang8229]

love you videos，often helps me a lot！

[@nicolevdh]

Glad you like them! Thank you for watching. :)

[@mahmoodfarmanesh]

Thank you for great content.

[@Stedward_]

Thanks for the information!

[@meszarosatilla]

Hi Nicole, one minor for the video 10:25 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXXLeYeknK6AgKc). I think the dataview query will show not only the tasks having specific tags before but all the tasks on pages which have the specific tag. I know it is not a big difference but might be important in certain case. Thanks for your videos.

[@hieptuanle]

do you know how I can get the same result as in the video?

[@no3lcodes]

Thank you, really helpful :)

[@MrMikkyn]

I'm trying to figure how to turn multiple lines of texts into multiple checklists. For example, in Apple's native Notes app, you can press Shift+Command+L to insert a checklist, and you can also highlight multiple rows of texts and turn them all into checklists at once. For the moment I've got probably, 400 recipes that I need to turn into checklists manually by pasting "-[] " into the beginning of every recipe, and I think I'm going to be spending a few hours doing that lol. Its so inefficient oh well. And on another note, which is completely unrelated to the video. But imagine in a post-apocalyptic if one day all the world's data were destroyed. That would be pretty scary. Like some natural disaster destroyed all the databases.

[@bcmurray66]

Hopefully you've gotten this solved by now, but in 1.5.11 you can a)highlight multiple lines; b)Cmd/Ctrl-P to open the command palette; c)choose "Toggle checkbox status". For me, this changes each of my lines to a separate task. Also, for my version of Obsidian the default hotkey was Cmd/Ctrl-L.

[@anitat9727]

Thank you for this

[@nicolevdh]

Glad you liked it, Anita!

[@raiseyourvibration1411]

Aloha Nicole! I gave this vid a "like" because it's a good vid, but I'll say that you're dead wrong about some aspects of GTD being inefficient. Sure, David Allen isn't a tech guy, but that doesn't matter because what's true about GTD doesn't have to do with technology. (Hey, BTW, that 43-folder system is not part of GTD!!) I've been doing GTD for four years as David lays it out in his book and it is amazing. The bottom line is that in order for anyone to accomplish anything that's important to them, whether that was 500 years ago, or 500 years from now, they MUST do the same five things in some form. Say you're committed to writing a book, hiring someone for your business, or building a deck onto your house, you must 1) Capture or identify the idea somehow, 2) Clarify it (figure out what the very next concrete action is that you must take), 3) Organize it (park it somewhere outside of your brain such as on a physical or electronic list), 4) Review your external brain regularly, and 5) Actually DO the next action. David Allen is brilliant in that the 5-step GTD process is utterly timeless. BTW, I LOVE Obsidian and I LOVE your channel! Aloha!!

[@nicolevdh]

Confused by the mixed positive and negative tones in your comment. However, did you read his original book? The 43 folders is explicitly in there, and it is the tickler system. His second book (which tried to digitize things) is somewhat less antiquated, but was still unfortunately hopelessly out of date for me. As I mentioned, there are some things that can be salvaged from GTD, but honestly, the 5-step procedure you outlined was not his creation. He wasn't the first to say any of those things-- just the first to slap a name on it. Those steps are pretty much the foundation of every productivity or work methodology. Definitely timeless, but not unique to GTD. If it works for you, I'm glad for it! I tend to want to mix and match things from methodologies rather than following any particular one.

[@raiseyourvibration1411]

@@nicolevdh Aloha Nicole, Oh no worries, it's all positive! I get a lot out of your channel. We just have different opinions about GTD, which is perfectly fine. Thank you for all your work, Nicole! Yes, I've read the 2015 book several times and I've also done direct coaching with Meg and Frank. David suggests a lot of things, including the outdated tickler system, but all those suggestions aren't part of the core methodology. The beauty of GTD as David sets it out as just as you say--he explicitly says to use what you can and trash the rest. And you're absolutely right that he didn't invent it--he is very clear, and he claims time and time again that he did not invent it. (In fact, I "directly received" in meditation this methodology a year prior to even hearing about David Allen. I used a lot of it in my grad work, in your part of the world, BTW, at KUL.) The main thing David did is write a book about how it's humanly impossible to do anything without engaging in five steps, and explicitly identified the idea that if we become aware of that fact, we can leverage that and have a greater degree of control. I think you know that we're all waiting for someone to come up with a methodology or a suite that allows seamless implementation of some kind of updated version of David's system. As you say it won't be software that implements the system exactly, because certain aspects of the system are outdated, but it would be something that brings everything up to our current time period of the 2020s. Readwise, Obsidian, and a few other things are part of that suite, and probably augmented with some original software. ToDoist, OmniFocus, and several other apps come close, but nevertheless have some friction. Aloha!

[@SRBallard]

WOW, great content

[@nicolevdh]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@GuillermoLozano-p5m]

The actual inventor of the "second brain" was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Better yet, the "inventor" was Sir Sherlock Holmes: "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

[@VladislavMaslii]

Thank you!

[@nicolevdh]

Thank YOU for watching! Happy to help. :)

[@spoomer94]

it's not a problem that it was written a lot years ago

[@misssomod194]

شكرا ❤️

[@nicolevdh]

شكرا لك ايضا!

[@one234569and10]

WTH is GTD?

[@unomas7000]

thanks

[@medezzeddinechabbouh3024]

Niceeeeeeeeeee u save my lipeu !

[@MuhammadArnaldo]

I think other app might do GTD better. I mean, Obsidian is great but not for all things.

[@nicolevdh]

My point was that I'm not a fan of the GTD method in general, but I do agree that Obsidian isn't great for all things! In fact, I don't think it's a great task manager at all. I think it CAN be used as a task manager, but I believe that's not one of its strengths.

[@MrHectorjalo]

WOWWWWW

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[@delemtube]

Downloaded the plugin =D I was using some .css I've found that fixated some "todo.md" note on the side panel, but this works better, because it collates from different notes. Thx

[@nicolevdh]

I think so too! You can always use workspaces to put a note on the side panel, but it's nice not to need to switch notes to add an item, and it's also nice to have multiple lists. Glad you found it useful too!