BeautyTasks — a Todoist-style task & project manager that lives inside Obsidian (every task is one Markdown note)
For a long time I kept my notes in Obsidian but my tasks in Todoist — and I hated the split. Whenever I tried to move tasks into Obsidian, I ended up with either giant checkbox lists or a setup so complex I stopped trusting it. What bugged me most: my tasks were either locked in someone else's app, or buried in Markdown I couldn't really work with.
So as a side project I started building the thing I actually wanted: a task setup where every task is a single Markdown note with frontmatter, but with a fast UI on top so it still feels like a real task app instead of editing YAML by hand.
A few design choices I'd love thoughts on:
- One note per task instead of checkboxes in a big file. It makes each task a first-class thing you can link, add notes/attachments to, and back up — but I keep wondering if it's overkill for people who just want quick checkboxes. Curious how others here feel about that trade-off.
- Projects vs. Areas (borrowed from PARA) — projects finish, areas are ongoing.
- Natural-language quick capture in English and German, since I think in both.
- Everything stays local, no account, no other plugin required — mostly because I wanted to be sure the data outlives the plugin.
It's still early and I'm a solo dev, so I'm mainly here for feedback: what would make a Markdown-first task workflow actually stick for you? What breaks your current setup?
If you want to poke at it, it's open source here (screenshots in the README): https://github.com/avnibilgin/BeautyTasks
Happy to answer anything about how it stores data or how it compares to the Tasks plugin.