Task Manager Bases View

Task Manager Bases View

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A lightweight task‑management plugin for Obsidian Bases. It only renders — your task data lives in your own markdown frontmatter / note body, and all grouping and filtering is done by Bases. The plugin owns no data model and hard‑codes no field names. Everything uses the tm- prefix.

Requires Obsidian 1.10+ (the Bases view API). Desktop only.

Views

The plugin is a thin renderer: change frontmatter / Bases config / drag → Bases re‑queries → the view re‑renders. It never keeps a long‑lived reference to the query result.

Features

Kanban (tm-kanban)

• Grouping is all Bases. Columns come from the Bases group‑by. Filters and sort are Bases' too.
• Predefined columns (view option): list the column values in order, each with an optional colour — todo|#6b7280, doing|blue, … Values match the Bases group‑by keys; unmatched/empty groups fall into a collapsed Uncategorized column.
• Done columns: doneStatuses marks which column values count as done; that column gets an Archive‑all button to archive every card in one click.
• Drag a card between columns to rewrite its group property (only writable note.* properties). Click opens the note in a reused right split; mod‑click opens a new tab. Dragging never triggers a click‑open.
• Right‑click a card → move to any column, or Archive (writes the configured archive value).
• Plane‑style columns: full height, header with title + count on the left and add / collapse on the right, columns collapse to a vertical bar, soft per‑column tint, in‑flow “new item” button.

Timeline (tm-timeline)

• Start / end date properties chosen in view options; scale = day / week / month.
• Lanes follow Bases group‑by (one lane per group) or a flat list when ungrouped.
• Bars for start+end, milestone dots for a single end, label‑only for no dates.
• Vertical grid lines per cell so you can read how many cells a bar spans; a padded time window (≈3 months/weeks around the data) and auto‑scroll to today.
• Drag the bar to shift both dates, drag an edge to change one end (writeback to note.*).

Weekly‑log calendar (tm-calendar)

• A 7‑day time grid built from your daily notes. The only body convention is one configurable section (default Log) whose list items are time blocks:

  ## Log
  - 14:00-15:00 (Dev) [[Some task]] notes
  - 16:00-16:30
  

  Format: HH:MM-HH:MM → optional (Category) → optional [[wikilink]] → optional note.
• Overlapping blocks render side‑by‑side. Drag (up or down) on empty grid to create a block via a modal (description + optional [[task]] link + category). Right‑click a block to delete it. Click opens that day's journal at the log line.
• Categories / colours: optional, enabled in settings. Define name|color (a colour name, hex, or rgb(...)), or put the colour inline in the line — (Dev|blue) — exactly like the kanban value|color scheme.
• Back‑reference (optional): when a block links a task, append a dated record under a heading inside that task's note.
• Custom day window (settings): default 00:00–24:00, but narrow it (e.g. 09:00–18:00) to focus on working hours — the grid then splits the visible hours to fill the height, so blocks render larger.

Other

• Click a task → right split. Kanban/timeline items open the note in a reused detail pane (view on the left, note on the right). No custom detail view — the note is the detail.
• i18n: English / 中文, switchable in settings (in‑view strings update live).

Install

Manual

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, styles.css from a release (or build them, below).
2. Copy them into <Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/task-manager-bases-view/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin under Settings → Community plugins.

Build from source

npm install
npm run dev      # watch build → main.js
npm run build    # svelte-check + production bundle

Outputs main.js (+ manifest.json, styles.css) in the project root.

Usage

1. Create a Bases .base file over your task notes.
2. Add a tm-kanban or tm-timeline view; configure it from the Bases toolbar:
   • Kanban: set Group by (e.g. status); optionally enable Use predefined columns and fill the column values / colours / done statuses / archive value.
   • Timeline: pick the start / end date properties and a scale.
3. For the calendar, run the command Open weekly log (or the ribbon clock icon).
4. Global, cross‑file conventions (journal folder, date format, week start, day window, log section, categories, back‑reference) live in Settings → Task Manager Bases View.

Toggling a view on/off in settings takes effect only after you disable and re‑enable the plugin (or restart Obsidian) — Bases has no per‑view unregister API.

Each view can be turned off independently, and the calendar's settings appear only while its view is enabled, keeping the page tidy:

View options reference

Example vault

A separate, ready‑to‑open demo vault lives in its own repo — obsidian-task-manager-example-vault — with a multi‑project dataset and several .base files (group‑by board, predefined‑colour pipeline, per‑project boards via filters, flat/grouped timeline, archive workflow) plus journals for the calendar.

Development notes

• Svelte 5 + esbuild. Entry src/main.ts → root main.js (CJS, single file).
• src/shared/ is the three‑view kernel (entry access, frontmatter write, value render, section parser, open‑detail, palette, i18n).
• No telemetry, no network requests; everything is local.

Feedback & issues

Found a bug, hit a rough edge, or have an idea? Please open an issue — bug reports, feature requests, and questions are all very welcome. A screenshot and your Obsidian version help a lot. See the changelog for what's new.

License

MIT © vastea