Obsidian just wasn’t doing it for me in keeping track of my tasks.
I love Obsidian! I use it to track my novel (a page for every scene, a table of all the scenes, and, of course, a page for each character in the book).
But for daily tasks and keeping track of my calendar, despite trying many different plug-ins, it just wasn’t working for me. There were no pings to remind me to do stuff and I could never get my Google calendar integrated (they say you can, but I think you’d need a degree in computer programming to figure out how to do it).
So many people love aps like Tick-Tick and Todoist, and I’ve tried them, but they just haven’t stuck. So, I’m trying something new (to me): Craft.
Craft is a lot like Obsidian in that it’s a notes app (although, Obsidian uses Markdown to format the text, Craft uses… something else). You can save notes very easily to Craft (there’s an extension in my browser so I can save web pages and videos with a click) and it has cute things like cards:
They are just links to a page, but they look pretty.
You can put in “smart links” so links to a webpage, instead of looking like this: https://meredithbond.com/category/writing/.
Can look like this:
Of course, you can create tables or a white board for different ways of connecting with information. And when you link one page to another a backlink is automatically created so it’s super-easy to tie pages and ideas together. One other cool thing you can do in Craft is create a web page of your page so that you can easily share it with others without them having to download the app.
But the best thing about Craft, and where I began, is the tasks and calendar integration. A page for today is created every day with the list of tasks I didn’t get done earlier (automatically populated) and tasks I’ve scheduled for that day along with anything that was in my calendar.
For fun, I created separate pages as well, linked through “cards” in an Eisenhower Priority Matix (see image above). It shows me the first few things I have listed on that page and if I need more detail or to tick something as done, I just click to open the page.
Someone in a “groups.io” group I’m a part of asked for productivity tips to get you writing. Some people responded with ‘body doubling’, music, or using tricks based on their eanagram or Clifton strength. Mine is just a simple to-do list which gives me a great deal of pleasure when I can put a tick into that check box.