Tasks Eye

Tasks Eye

Tasks Eye is an Obsidian plugin that helps you track what to do next across your notes. Instead of a giant list of tasks, Tasks Eye treats your notes as projects or work items, and surfaces the next actionable task for each one.

Your Markdown notes and Obsidian Tasks checkboxes remain the source of truth.

Core Features

Tasks Eye gives you three main views to manage your work:

• Focus: Shows tasks due today or overdue. This is your daily dashboard for tasks that need immediate attention.
• Open: Shows all your active notes and their next tasks grouped by due date, helping you plan ahead.
• Inbox: Highlights notes with broken metadata (e.g. a missing parent link, a broken note tree, a missing due date, or no unchecked tasks) so you can fix them.

How it works

1. Create the note tree: Put indexed Markdown notes anywhere below the configured Tasks Eye notes folder. Mark exactly one note as the root with up: -; every other note links to its parent, for example up: "[[Work]]". The root is a normal note and still needs the usual status and task metadata. Folders only define the indexing boundary.
2. Add a task to the note using the Obsidian Tasks format with a scheduled or due date:

---
status: open
up: "[[Work]]"
---

# Renew passport

- [ ] Find the required documents 📅 2026-08-03
- [ ] Take a compliant photo
- [ ] Submit the application

3. Tasks Eye will automatically surface the first unchecked dated task from that note in your Focus or Open views, depending on the date. A note's context is its first-level ancestor in the up tree, and selecting the root basename in the context filter shows the whole indexed tree.

Requirements

Tasks Eye requires Obsidian 1.13.4 or newer and the Tasks community plugin.

Documentation and Workflows

For full feature documentation, commands, and optional workflow guides (such as using Tasks Eye for GTD), visit the Tasks Eye Documentation.

Network use

Public-holiday support optionally connects to the Nager.Date API to request its supported country list and, after you select a country, nationwide holiday dates for the relevant years. Tasks Eye does not send note or vault content. Downloaded holiday data is cached locally in the plugin settings.