Obsidian Templater script to convert the current line to a Tasks plugin task

README.md

Line to scheduled task

By combining the core daily notes plugin with the Tasks plugin, Obsidian now has quite a compreshensive todo and task management solution.

It's not quite as tight as a native app like NotePlan however.

This little template script for the Templater plugin fills the gap for a couple of use-cases

• adding a task to a daily note, without having to remember to schedule it to be due on that date
• quickly adding a task to a project note that is scheduled for the current date

On my Macs, I have the template assigned to SHIFT + COMMAND + S.

Then, I can either use COMMAND + T to jump to today's daily note, or I've assigned SHIFT + COMMAND + J to use the Obsidian-42 - Jump-to-date plugin to jump to an arbitrary date, and hit SHIFT + COMMAND + S to quickly schedule a task for that date.

In project notes, I use the template to quickly add ad-hoc todos within my notes, or to add them to a dedicated tasks section that I keep at the top of each page.

Mobile integration

This is especially useful on my Onyx Boox Nova Air C, where I use the Android share sheet to send links from Feedly to Obsidian, which gives the option to append it to today's daily note.

I've setup Obsidian's mobile toolbar to invoke the Templater plugin's insert modal template, so I can just select this template to convert the link to a todo that's scheduled for today.

On my dashboard, it will show up as scheduled for today, or if I don't get to it, will still appear as overdue, so it won't drop off my radar.

This gives a neat method of ubiquitous capture.

When I'm back on my Mac, where I have my vault syncing across with Obsidian Sync, I then process these items out to project pages in NotePlan, or just act on them immediately, GTD style.

Dashboard.md

Today

due today
not done

done today

Overdue

not done
due before today

line_to_scheduled_task.js

<%*
  let cmEditorAct = this.app.workspace.activeLeaf.view.editor;

  // Get contents of line under custor
  let currentCursor = cmEditorAct.getCursor();
  let currentLine = currentCursor.line;
  let lineContents = cmEditorAct.getLine(currentLine);
  let taskDescription = lineContents;
  
  // Is this a daily note?
  let dateRegex = /^[\d]{4}-[\d]{2}-[\d]{2}$/;
  let taskDate = null;
  if(tp.file.title.match(dateRegex)) {
    taskDate = tp.file.title;
  } else {
    taskDate = tp.date.now();
  }

  // Prompt for the task description
  if(taskDescription == "") {
    taskDescription = await tp.system.prompt("Enter task to be scheduled on " + taskDate)
  }

  // no-op if no task has been entered
  if(taskDescription == "" || taskDescription == null)
    return;

  // Replace line with scheduled task
  cmEditorAct.replaceRange(
    "- [ ] " + taskDescription + " 📅 " + taskDate,
    { line: currentLine, ch: 0},
    { line: currentLine, ch: lineContents.length}
  );
%>