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Greetings,

I started using Obsidian and the brilliant Obsidian Tasks plugin to manage Tasks in my notes however it didn't quite work for me as I would lose track of Tasks when away from my laptop, and there are no reminders for Tasks so it's not easy to stay on top of things.

I wrote my first macOS App to solve the problem; Reminder Sync for Obsidian. It periodically scans your Obsidian Vault for Tasks and creates Reminders for them in Reminders.app! Once your Tasks are created as Reminders they are synced through iCloud so they are also visible on iOS; this solves the main problem I had with Obsidian Tasks, allowing me to keep on top of Tasks with system Reminders and Widgets on macOS and iOS.

Other features apart from the core functionality described above are:

- Creating a Reminder adds a Task to an Inbox note in your Obsidian Vault, allowing you to create Obsidian Tasks from iOS.

- Deleting/Completing a Task in Reminders app completes/deletes the Task in your Vault

The core functionality is free, and I believe the free version should be sufficient for most users. Paid features include increased automatic sync frequency, ability to delete tasks from Reminders.app and ability to generate a description for the Reminder.

The app is available on the App Store: https://apple.co/3TH1e5s

You can view a demo video at the homepage: https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/

I would appreciate any feedback as it's my first solo App release!

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I use Obsidian daily, but my understanding of the app is terrible. I use it because it's the best markdown editor I've found — I just edit separate .md files, many of which are essentially a 'template' that contains a whole bunch of checkboxes.

Is there a good 'starter guide' that I can use to get up to speed so I can start using Obsidian to track my notes, etc.? I'm very used to editing individual .md files for this kind of thing, but manually, and I get the impression Obsidian offers a bunch of benefits.

There’s a lot of crappy “I want to be a content creator!”-tier content out there. You’ve gotta do a bit of digging to find examples that aren’t someone organising their YouTube channel, crappy Medium blog, or other content creation side hustle.

For anyone looking for a simple markdown editor (nothing more), I would recommend Typora. It's closed source, and the plugin system is lacking, but it gets the essentials basically perfect.

I'm on macOS, and I use either TextEdit or Vim. The problem isn't Obsidian itself, but the ecosystem in which it exists.

I used to use Typora but something put me off — I can't totally remember what. It might have been that it creates copies of files rather than saving in-place, which then screws up hard links. But it might have been something less 'niche' too!

Honestly, play around until you find your own flow.

You don't need to use every Obsidian feature under the sun to become a productivity machine, nor have it all perfectly organised, linked and categorised in your "second brain". Take notes, label them well, and use the global search when you need something. Try a new plugin from time to time.

Using Obsidian "just" as a markdown editor is a perfectly valid use. I used VSCode with some Markdown plugins for years. I tried Typora, Coda, etc but they felt too limited and sluggish. I just wanted code-like markdown editing with a bit of fanciness, and Obsidian does just that.

I have a template for journalling, and a simplistic structure for where to place files in my knowledgebase. It's not perfect, and doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me.

If you do want an example of some of my structure (I share some of the resource/knowledge publicly), see here: https://publish.obsidian.md/thecapegreek

The only drawback I can say really is that I need to better separate public and private resources, as I'm always afraid I'll accidentally publish some private notes that live among the other files you might see in the link.

I have published a free guide: https://www.dsebastien.net/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-o...

I also have a course: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/obsidian-starter-course

And a starting point with a preconfigured vault and a user guide: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/obsidian-starter-kit

I love Obsidian - its approach, the ecosystem, and the implementation.

But... I can't help but feel it will become the latest application to either pivot to something unpalatable (probably after being acquired) or become abandonware, leaving me to move to Yet Another Tool. And so it prevents me from really investing in any of it - I just use a no-frills text editor.

For me, the nice part about Obsidian is that they're just markdown files. So even if something happens to Obsidian, the notes still exist and are still easily transferrable to something else.

Yeah, having a non-proprietary data format is a huge plus. I wish the Obsidian code itself was open source.

It’s hard to make a living with open source (saying from experience).

Sadly, that's true, and my frustration with the constant churn of software is no reflection on the good people making Obsidian.

Obsidian is free to use, and they make their money from offering additional sync-service and good will of the users. I don't think open source would impact it much. Though, it would bear the risk of a hostile fork, maybe to include a free to sync or something. I mean the obsidian-devs have some bad history on that front.

But at least they should give some guarantee to Open Source it if there were no significant update in a while, similar to how Qt and KDE have their agreement. Or at least they should make the source available, so people can contribute or move away easier in case of problems.

Markdown isn’t immune to deprecation in the Obsidian ecosystem - I have files with random junk in the headers leftover from failed attempts to integrate some data management plugin or regime.

So? Does it matter much for some reason? That doesn’t seem like a compatibility issue.

If you've invested time into adding metadata and app-specific markdown to your setup, you lose that when you move to another tool. Has happened to me before. It's about vendor lock-in when you go too deep into their ecosystem.

And instead of open text files with plaintext properties in the YAML frontmatter standard, you want to do.... what, exactly?

And the plugins are all OSS, on GitHub.

What do you imagine is more open with less lock-in?

Its called front matter and its supported in markdown

How does that change the point being made? Front matter is supported essentially as a bucket of metadata. Front matter has varying degrees of usefulness without supporting tooling.

Front matter is still a simple text based format that can easily be parsed by other programs, and there is already quite a bit of tooling to process it. Even without tooling, it’s human readable. The degree of usefulness just increases the more sophisticated the tool is that you’re using to read it. Compare this with the painful migration away from Evernote, which left me with a folder full of giant .enex files that I can technically use elsewhere, but at this point are realistically just an archive I’ll never touch unless I really need something.

Fairly easily transferrable to something else. I assume that many of the plugins that power users use involve added non-standard stuff to the files. Like if you're adding a bunch of metadata to be consumed by the Dataview plugin, all that metadata might be worthless on a new app unless someone creates an equivalent plugin elsewhere.

It's open source, so they can. But people who want forward-compatibility should probably think about what their raw markdown files look like, and how useful they'd be in another program.

It’s not open source, just free as in beer.

Personally I do avoid add-ons that create special syntax in the md files so that if Obsidian ever goes shitty I’ll have an easier time migrating to whatever alternative.

Sorry, the plugins are generally open source, that's what I was referring to.

Gotcha, yeah.

If it ever comes to needing an Obsidian replacement I'd hope it can aim for compatibility with the plug-in ecosystem, at least initially. No idea how difficult a target that would be. Either way, I certainly worry about my data in Obsidian less than I worry about Evernote, OneNote, or Apple Notes, even with a couple of non-standard markdown additions.

Since it's not VC backed I'm hopeful about Obsidian building a long-term sustainable business without having to turn shitty, but who knows. I should sign up for Sync and give them some money.

> I assume that many of the plugins that power users use involve added non-standard stuff to the files. Like if you're adding a bunch of metadata to be consumed by the Dataview plugin, all that metadata might be worthless on a new app ...

The metadata is YAML frontmatter. Works with any frontmatter aware tools, which includes, for example, most static site generators.

It's all just markdown, the plugins layer on top of Markdown.

Your site basically works if you shove it in GitHub pages. With a touch of config matching, you can open an Obsidian "vault" in the VSCode plugin called Foam (like Roam but for a local folder structure of Markdown files).

Most add ons, like, say, Excalidraw for charting, are themselves tools with plugins in GitHub Pages, Hugo, MkDocs, etc., so are portable for static site gen (SSG).

The only thing it seems to be "missing" is the CRDT style multiplayer live editing of tools like Notion or Craft.

That's the theory, but it's not like they use strict markdown. Markdown in the first place is a very simple and limited format, so everyone has their own syntax-extensions and tweaks, and obsidian is no exception. So even if you lose the data themselves, you could lose a significant amount of ability to work with them, if somehow obsidian becomes unusable.

And if you build on plugins, this sometimes happens even now here and there. Plugins becoming unusable because of an update is still not uncommon. Their developing stopping for whatever reason is also a bit of a problem.

FWIW, their CEO seems quite set on long-term growth instead of a quick sell, as evidenced by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336308

That may be the CEOs intent, but if they have share holders and someone shows up with money it isn’t entirely the CEOs call. They have a responsibility to produce returns and if an offer is better than what they can do without selling their obligation is pretty clear.

I’ve known some folks who I believe really wanted to grow a company but when faced with an offer to buy it they didn’t feel they could survive a legal challenge arguing that they should sell.

It’s 2024. By this point we all know how this ride goes. So if a founder states that they’re targeting sustainable long-term growth, and that intent isn’t reflected in how they’ve taken on investments, they’re flat-out lying. There’s simply no excuse to be that utterly naive. The Obsidian mob seem very switched on, and their public headcount isn’t remotely indicative of VC-funded hyper-growth. It looks like they’re doing everything right.

My point being that even if the CEO intends long term growth, it may not matter.

People’s perception regarding the CEO is telling the truth or not is largely irrelevant at that point.

If the offer is big enough their hands are often tied due to their obligation to the rest of the owners.

They are bootstrapped and committed not to take VC money[1].

[1] https://stephango.com/vcware

Obsidian does not have any shareholders. It's a team of 6 people, and the sole owners are the two original founders.

The Evernote CEO used to talk about how he was building a 100 year company.

As a matter of fact, Evernote still works and is improving fast.

For me Evernote peaked around 2014-2015. The native clients were fast and small and integrated well with the host platform. I haven't used it since around 2020, so I'm glad to hear they are actually working on it.

I subscribed on the Plus plan for 8 years at $35 / year. Now the personal plan is $130 / year. I used it maybe once a week so for me that would be $2 every time I launch it. It just isn't worth it.

Recent evolution? Do tell

Well, I suggest you check the Evernote product lead's X account.

https://x.com/fedesimio

You'll see that they are working on many improvements, some of them are already in the app.

To me, Obsidian just isn't sticky, so I already have pivoted to Amplenote. It's been the tool that I consistently use for note taking and personal task tracking.

I used Evernote for well over a decade and I don’t regret that I did, despite the changes that eventually forced me to get rid of it and change my habits.

There is already a growing ecosystem of tools that are Obsidian-like, and if Obsidian ever went down an unpalatable path, those tools are ready and waiting.

If a no frills editor works for you, great. But at the same time, I don’t think a future problem with Obsidian is a good reason to avoid it. In a worst case, that no frills editor will open your vault just fine. But I’d personally switch to something like Logseq, which is also coming along really nicely.

In the meantime, the value that Obsidian brings to my daily life is immense. And that’s worth the risk of eventually needing to find something new, especially when I know that the underlying data is completely portable.

> There is already a growing ecosystem of tools that are Obsidian-like, and if Obsidian ever went down an unpalatable path, those tools are ready and waiting.

can you name a few? i have currently installed and enabled 65 plugins. Granted, that is mostly because the obsidian team does not know how to build a good product, leading me to use plugins. but even then, the functionality is not that bad (templater, book search, dataview, loom, custom file explorer/command palette etc)

The fact that the product is so extensible is a sign to me that they know how to build an excellent product.

I'm currently using 1 community plugin and have only enabled a handful of the core plugins.

I personally wish they would stop adding features to Obsidian. It feels complete to me.

i disagree. extensible is super duper but even that isn't great with Obsidian from a dev perspective. so the product "Obsidan Plugin API for devs" is also lacking.

and core features should be in core (dataview for example). what is most shocking though is that sync and publish are horrendous implementation of said features. i would kind of get it for other stuff but together they are 20 bucks plus tax per month. just now sync has 'merged' a note on my iphone (no changes on iphone though) and completely scrambled the note. same with another 3 notes. if i did not check the note by chance now, i would have missed it.

the entire UI around a sync feature is bad.

Logseq is at the top of the list and would be the most similar/robust in terms of linking, visualizations and plugins [0]. It’s also open source, and I think a lot of development would shift in this direction if Obsidian ever angered the community.

Roam Research is also conceptually similar but I’ve spent less time digging into the tooling.

I’ve also been keeping an eye on Zettlr and Joplin, but these are not as flexible and their usefulness would depend on how you’re using Obsidian.

I misplaced the link to the repo right, but there was a “universal markdown notes migrator” project I found on GH back when I was evaluating Obsidian that looked promising and the goal was to facilitate movement between tools.

- [0]https://github.com/logseq/awesome-logseq

Check out: VSCodium + FOAM (VSCode plugin). Cross-linked markdown notes. You can then use MkDocs/MkDocs-Material and ROAMLinks (MkDocs plugin) to publish as a cross-linked HTML site.

> There is already a growing ecosystem of tools that are Obsidian-like

That very much depends on the definition of "like". Most are very different in their concepts and abilities or even foundation. They are mostly similar, if you compare it to cloud-tools, or old commercial tools.

I think this is fair, and maybe “Obsidian-compatible” would be a better way to describe it.

With that said, there are a few key tools that are extremely similar conceptually, e.g. Logseq/Roam. Logseq in particular feels like “Opinionated Obsidian”. And this is where most of the tooling growth has been occurring through plugins.

I started getting the same feeling and so switched to Logseq and have been very happy.

>...leaving me to move to Yet Another Tool.

That's actually integral to the notetaking/productivity app market. Either the app soon dies out or you get bored with it and you move on to the next one.

Just like with self-help products. Targets of the self-help market are never intended to just read one or two books and get on with their lives. They're vulnerable to seemingly unending consumption of one self-help product after another. They're endlessly sold on regurgitated feel-good crap that keeps them coming back for more.

These productivity tools, like self-help books, become the ends in themselves, rather than the means.

I used to do the same thing with productivity & learning apps and systems. Kept procrastinating looking for that One Good Tool. I had this misconception that if I didn't have that one perfect notetaking tool or productivity app, then I'd be held back.

I ultimately realized that what was really holding me back was myself.

I eliminated my dependency on The One Perfect Tool, I replaced that dependency with more practical action, lightly supported by simple pen & paper and plain text files, and now I'm more productive and more learned than ever.

As in the other comments here, I use Obsidian but avoid making it tightly coupled with my workflows. I like the fact that I can walk away when needed.

I used reminders a lot earlier, but I have stopped using them these days. I continue to use Calendars and Notes. Between the two, the need for reminders has gone from my workflow. If I need reminding and have a date/time, it is calendared. If I need a Checklist (Shopping), it is in a Note or part of a Note (e.g., Shared Shopping List with your partner).

Thank you, an excellent tool and works well so far. It was a nice easy setup, you already convinced me to purchase the lifetime pro to say thanks. Gotta support indie developers in an ecosystem I use.

A minor bug I noticed, you don't have media controls on the demo video on your website. I had to right-click and select play, clicking the video didn't start it either.

Thank you, it really means a lot! The video should autoplay so I hid the controls; I'll add them back though as I guess autoplay is flakey.

Is it possible to introduce a trial? I'd want to make sure that the features work as described and am curious how smooth this works when not using your Macbook often. Like whether it will sync them in the background when the laptop is closed. Should I simply buy and go for a refund via Apple if it doesn't work out? Though I feel like this might be worse for you.

Tried it out just now as a free user and it synced thousands of completed reminders as `- [x] ...` for each. It's hard to make the jump to pay for this when I cannot test it out fully.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I believe the free version should be representative as a trial and also useful without upgrading. If you would like to try premium please email and I can add you to the test flight.

I designed the App to be running all the time on my MacBook as that is where I use Obsidian; during my usage I have observed syncing working with my machine plugged in and display closed. This should be possible to test yourself with the free 6 hour sync interval.

For the issue you mentioned, by any chance did you select an existing list or create a new empty list? If selecting an existing reminder list completed Reminders will be synced to the inbox. It was an untested flow, but I think it’s correct as the program ensures the list state is synced to the vault state. I believe the setup wizard recommends creating a new list, I will add a note that completed reminders will be added to your vault if you select an existing list.

This is really the missing puzzle piece for my Obsidian setup, and therefore was an insta-buy.

However important recomemndation though: I selected "enable syncing" in the onboard process and your app proceeded to sync every single task from my entire vault. I am watching the number climb into the hundreds. There should be some kind of warning that this will happen, and/or some way to filter which tasks sync (ie: tags, or tasks in a specific note).

Thank you, this is the second request I had for filtering so I will add it.

Hi, version 1.1.0 just shipped that added an option to specify a Global Filter similar to the Task Plugin global filter, so if configured only Tasks containing the filter text will be included; once configured you might wish to click Clear Cache to remove all the existing reminders and re-scan your Vault. Hope it solves your issue!

I wrote my own version of this - but ended up abandoning it for todoist. What I care about is that Obsidian is my “point of service” for all of my daily notes - but the actual management of todos seems better outside of the tool, rather then inside. As long as I can quickly and easily create tasks in notes, and display them in the correct output, using todoist to mange the backend seems reasonable to me.

Is there a way to sync obsidian notes to todoist? I've been using this app on TestFlight and forcing myself to use Apple reminders. I like that I can add reminders via Siri if I'm away from a computer, and sync tasks throughout my day from meetings or other things... but I don't like reminders kanban, and some of the data embed options in it. Feels too bare bones

Hi @rahilb, this sounds very intriguing; but I have a question regarding the In-App Purchases: what do these do? Is the app a trial that eventually requires a subscription or lifetime purchase?

I think what Obsidian with recent changes to their sorage sync fees is actually brilliant. I paid $8/month for 50GB, then they dropped the storage to 10GB. So I’m getting a great deal for the same $8 compared to new users & now they have a very low-grade $4/moonth plan that probably works for a lot of people … maybe even me. But going from 50GB to 1GB for half teh cost has me locked in to an extent.

That said $9/year doesn’t seem crazy for this one feature but I’m reluctant to install this without knowing this in advance. Still surprised Apple doesn’t require these details upfront … but these details aren’t in the app store or site as far as I can tell.

Hi, the free version should be sufficient for most users; once installed and configured it provides:

- syncing of vault tasks to reminders (once every six hours)

- completion of vault tasks in reminders (immediately when the app is running)

- creation of tasks from reminders (also immediate while running)

- manual syncing whenever you want (click a button to sync vault tasks to reminders if you don’t want to wait for the automatic sync)

If you purchase, you get access to the following nice to have features:

- faster sync intervals (I.e. your vault is checked automatically for new tasks up to every minute)

- deletion sync: if you delete a Reminder the associated Task is deleted from the vault (immediately)

- descriptions for Reminders: the reminder description includes the note name from Obsidian; soon this will also include any child elements of the task.

- ability to only sync tasks with a due date

Like I said the free version should still be useful for most people. Once installed there is also a description of premium features on the purchase screen.

I’ll add these to the App Store description; thanks for the feedback!

Many apps lack a good means of triggering "reminders" on iOS and MacOs. Apple seems to keep the secret sauce to themselves. 3rd party apps just miss the mark IMO. However, the reminders app itself leave a lot to be desired. So something like this that ties a great app into what the native apps reminders is a great idea. Thank you for sharing!

Shortcuts app has just enough support to manage reminders, but automation triggers are fairly limited.

I haven't had great luck with shortcut reminders. I always feel like there are cases it didn't trigger, then I don't trust it.

I run my own CardSAV/CalDAV server but as long as you have a DAV server (Fastmail gives one for eg), Reminders will happily sync against it.

I use it to sync my reminders/contacts/calendars across Thunderbird/Linux and iOS.

I can edit/update/delete items programmatically with ease without any Apple secret sauce.

That sound like a fun project to try out. I may try that out. Thanks.

This is probably one of the best yet most underrated features of the various stock Apple organizational apps: they work just as well as vendor agnostic clients for standard protocols (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc) with relatively little favoring of first-party services.

I wish this were more common, but instead it’s more typical to see things like the vendor agnostic Windows Mail being abandoned for “new” Outlook which is much pushier about using MS services.

What features is the Reminders app missing? I switched from Things to Reminders and didn't notice any missing features. Not doubting your statement - I'm genuinely curious to know what functionality might be lacking in Reminders that I'm unaware of.

Persistent reminders. TickTick's implementation is good.

what is a persistent reminder?

It keeps spamming notifications until you act on it. Very helpful if you need some help with attention.

I use the IOS "Due" app for this. I have it set-up to pull out items from Reminders that have days and times assigned.

Makes it really hard to forget those tasks.

I have used that, it's pretty nice! For now I settled on TickTick cause it's easy to use from my Linux laptop and my iOS devices. If you are fully Apple, Due is a good choice.

Also, Due syncs via iCloud, which can be e2e encrypted nowadays.

With TickTick you're storing / sharing your data with a commercial company...

I certainly see the notifications for incomplete tasks from Reminders on my lock screen every time I lift my iPhone. I have one I've been ignoring for weeks. Seems pretty persistent to me...

> Many apps lack a good means of triggering "reminders" on iOS and MacOs. Apple seems to keep the secret sauce to themselves.

Apple built developers an entire framework dedicated to this, which works on both iOS and macOS. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/eventkit

I wish there was a way to syn from Apple Notes to Obsidian (or maybe there is?) Apple Notes is just faster and more convenient for daily notes, but I want Obsidian to be my repository, so I want some mechanism of automatically syncing certain notes or importing at some intervals.

Either, export your Apple Notes as Markdown:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/exporter/id1099120373?mt=12

Or use the official Importer:

https://help.obsidian.md/import/apple-notes

Btw, Shortcuts can slam things into your Obsidian vault because it's just text files. That can be as fast or faster than Notes. You might need a shortcuts helper like Toolbox Pro that can remember a path to your vault and write to it from your shortcuts:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/toolbox-pro-for-shortcuts/id14...

Interesting. I’ve found ReminderCal’s approach to synching with the Calendar pretty novel and foolproof (basically use an action in Shortcuts to sync it it across when you close Reminders), and I’d be interested to know how your works.

That said, I’ve had many, many false starts with Obsidian, and I don’t think this is enough to tilt my workflows towards it again. The Apple Notes importer does not work with images or drawings, which kind of makes the thought of transitioning kind of moot.

Also, I can’t be trusted to not fiddle around as soon as I open my vault. Notes is much less customisable, but this is a wind for consistency and ‘stability’ when I open it up to actually take notes.

Very cool. Reminders is one of those Apple Apps that has proper API. So anyone can integrate with it.

I've build two apps on top of it: 1. macOS habits tracker https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alto-computer/id6478018751?mt=... 2. small web app to publish my daily habits online https://public.me/anton/daily

Thank you! This was something I was desperately looking for when I started using Obsidian. Already paid for the lifetime license :)

It's unclear to me what happens if I run this on multiple machines. I have a few different machines that I use throughout the day but none are on "24/7" so I'd love to install this everywhere so it's always syncing. I'd love for that to be possible but I think either way it might be useful to document whether I can/shouldn't do that :)

That case is definitely undefined behaviour right now; if I had to guess it would result in duplicates at the moment. I’ll work on supporting it but for now I don’t recommend it!

Makes sense, consensus is tricky and a weird use case I know. Thanks!

I love Obsidian, but mostly use a filter (dataview) to deal with my tasks and overview. Most of the time on Windows and Linux. I do not use my macBook a lot. Only for testing the application we work on, so not very familiar with Reminders, though I like the idea. How do you properly link them up as they might go out of sync (loose relation) if one of the texts gets changed.

Feedback: - It works! and really easily too! Thank you - Things I wish it could do: Sync based on #tag #metadata. I use 'Checklist' obsidian plugin and there's check-boxes that I throw in and there's 'checklist' items with tag name (e.g., #TODO) that I use to actually collate things that are to-be-done.

Hi, glad you like it!

Version 1.1.0 just shipped that allows you to specify a Global Filter; only Tasks containing the filter will be synced if that's what you're after? Or would you like to exclude notes from being included based on properties at the beginning of the document?

Hi Rahil, yep, just as you said! Thank you! I'm waiting for the update to sync into the App Store to test this.

Is anyone else experiencing issues with off-by-one dates? If I set a date of 2024-03-20 on an Obsidian task (today), I'm getting a Reminder out the other side with a due date of 2024-03-19 (yesterday).

Side note: it looks like the support email (remindersyncturquoisehexagon.co.uk) is malformed? Gmail is refusing to send emails to it.

Hi, the email should be remindersync@turquoisehexagon.co.uk please let me know the issue you’re facing!

How does this sync the other way? If you delete or complete a reminder or change the description do you get duplicates or do your changes get clobbered? What about conflicts? Does it matter if you make the changes in obsidian or reminders?

I guess I'm asking how fragile this is in practice.

- Deleting a Task in Obsidian that has been synced to Reminders deletes the Reminder

- Deleting a Reminder that has been synced to Obisidian deletes the Task from Obsidian (if enabled in the settings menu)

- Completing a synced task in Obsidian will complete the Reminder (on the next sync)

- Completing a synced Reminder will complete the Task in Obsidian (immediately if the app is running)

- Creating a Reminder in the synced list creates a task in a note called "Reminder Sync Inbox.md"

- Editing a Task in Obsidian and syncing deletes the previously associated Reminder and creates a new one (effectively updating the text in Reminders.app)

The only known limitation (so far) is:

- Editing a synced Reminder description in Reminders.app does not update the text of the Task in Obsidian: This is hard to solve as the original Task may contain embedded links (which are stripped to just the link text for the Reminder description). Syncing those edits back to Markdown is a difficult problem that I haven't bothered focused on yet as I feel it may not be solvable.

In case of a conflict, the state in Obsidian always wins :)

Was it difficult to build? I'd like syncing with other task/reminder providers from Obsidian

Difficulty is of course subjective; I have 10+ years of functional programming experience but was completely new to Swift; the core functionality took less than a week of 4ish hours a day. Apple's EventKit API is very developer friendly and Markdown is a well known format so that made things easier. I'm not a frontend / UI tradie so spent another few days learning SwiftUI & making things look quality (and TBH I think that quality is not where I want it to be). So to answer your question... not really?

I would love to have exactly this but for Omnifocus! I currently do it with Shortcuts but is limited to one way sync which is very inconvenient. Having the task in context on Obsiadian but also nicely organized and actionable in a task manager is great.

Excellent, I was just thinking about something like this a couple of weeks ago.

> "Turquoise Hexagon Cybernetics"

Nice homage to Boards of Canada!

BoC Maxima!

Would love to see you add support for Logseq!

Is there an Apple Tasks app (or compatible app) for Android?

Works great. Now just make it sync with JIRA too.

Is this also available via dmg offline install?

Unfortunately it's App Store only right now.

Used obsidian for a while but had too many pains with it. Eventually migrated to SuperNotes and couldn’t be happier.

> "Currently data is not end-to-end-encrypted (E2EE) on the platform, but this is something we hope to offer in the future."

https://supernotes.app/faq/

Shame...

Why does no one use Logseq? I prefer it to Obsidian after using both

I wanted to like Logseq, but I couldn't stand how opinionated it is about the format of my notes. Also, at least on Ubuntu 22, there was a noticeable delay when interacting with any UI element.

Interesting -- I like the bullets and the 'restrictiveness'

You can achieve a similar effect in Obsidian by using the plugins Outliner and Zoom.

I still feel Logseq is still a better outliner (although I don't use it), Obsidian is better at handling the other use cases.

I use LogSeq with the TODO plugin giving me a sidebar view of outstanding TODOs. It would be wonderful to have a similar plugin for LogSeq but of course the onus is on me to make that happen. If someone were working on such an integration I would gladly support it via Patreon or open collective, etc…

It's confusing. I tried it a few time, but never really got into it. It seems very opinionated into what it offers and seems to force you into a workflow. Obsidian is more liberate and flexible in that regard.

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