Workflows
How to use the Obsidian Tasks plugin: a minimal setup
Four steps to a working task system in Obsidian: install and configure, write a task, query your tasks, and complete them safely. Kept deliberately minimal.
The ZPXE Team··10 min
Essays
Feeling overwhelmed by too many tasks? Start here
Overwhelm is carrying every task in your head at once. Empty it to a trusted list, shrink to today's few, start the smallest piece, and the freeze lifts.
The ZPXE Team··9 min
Guides
Obsidian Tasks vs Dataview: which for task management?
Tasks is a task engine; Dataview is a query engine. They do different jobs, most people run both, and one recurrence trap decides how to combine them.
The ZPXE Team··11 min
Essays
What makes a note important? Ask the link graph
A note that well-connected notes point to is more central to your thinking than an isolated one, and you can measure it. Note gravity, PageRank and its limits.
The ZPXE Team··10 min
Workflows
How to decide what to do today without the overwhelm
Deciding your day is extracting a shortlist, not ranking your whole backlog. A short repeatable morning procedure that cuts a long list to what matters now.
The ZPXE Team··9 min
Guides
The Obsidian Tasks plugin: what it does and its limits
The Tasks plugin is the right first install for tasks in Obsidian. What it does, how its six priority levels really work, where it stops, and how to pair it.
The ZPXE Team··10 min
Essays
Why your task app should explain how it ranks
An opaque ranker that errs once gets abandoned; a transparent one gets corrected and kept. The case for a task ranking whose reasons are its arithmetic, shown.
The ZPXE Team··10 min
Essays
How to prioritise tasks: from Eisenhower to scoring
Prioritising well means scoring, not guessing. The methods that work, from the Eisenhower matrix to weighted scoring, and where each fits your list size.
The ZPXE Team··10 min
Essays
Why productivity apps fail, and what to want instead
Most productivity apps perfect capture and presentation and leave deciding, the part you were stuck on, to you. The structural failure, and the fix.
The ZPXE Team··10 min
Guides
The best Obsidian task management plugin, by job
Tasks, Dataview, TaskNotes, Task Genius and ZPXE compared for real. There is no single best plugin, only a best one for capture, presentation, or the daily decision.
The ZPXE Team··10 min
Guides
Does Obsidian have task management? The honest answer
Obsidian has no built-in task management beyond a Markdown checkbox. Here is what it does natively, and whether your tasks belong in a vault at all.
The ZPXE Team··10 min
Guides
Obsidian task management: the honest full-stack guide
How task management really works in Obsidian: the Tasks plugin, Dataview, TaskNotes and where a deciding layer like ZPXE fits, with the honest limits of each.
The ZPXE Team··10 min