Obsidian Week Planner Plugin

week-planner.mov

This plugin reflects my personal working process that is organized around three central ideas:

• Inbox: single, unordered lists of todos
• Week: goals for the current week
• Today: ordered lists of today's todos

Each if these three todo containers is represented by a single Obsidian document type organized within the following folder structure:

Week Planner
  Days
    2022-09-05-Monday
    2022-09-06-Tuesday
    ...
  Weeks
    Calweek-2022-35
    Calweek-2022-36
  	...
  Inbox

Each file contains tasks according to the todo-specific markup rules:

## 2022-09-19-Monday
- [ ] Plan my day
- [ ] Do emails
- [ ] Create new Week Planner release

The basic idea of this plugin is to create and open these documents easily and to move tasks between them as seamless as possible. These goals are achieved by providing a set of commands:

• Show Inbox Creates and / or shows the inbox note
• Show Week Creates and / or shows the note of the current calendar week
• Show Today Creates and / or shows the todo list for today
• Show Tomorrow Creates and / or shows the todo list for tomorrow
• Show Yesterday Creates and / or shows the todo list of yesterday
• Move Task Moves task under cursor to the next working day
• Move to Inbox Moves task under cursor back to the inbox
• Move Anywhere Opens a modal to move task under cursor to the inbox or a specific date document
• Add Todo Opens a todo modal to create a new todo and insert it into the inbox or a specific date document

All Show-Tasks open the relevant document. The document and the underlying folder structure is created automatically if it doesn't exist.

The Show-commands consider the actual date along with a set of working days. Thus, Show Today always creates / opens a todo note for the actual date regardless if today is a working day or not. But Show Tomorrow and Show Yesterday consider working days, thus if you trigger Show Yesterday on a Sunday the todo note of last Friday is created / opened.

The Planning Process

The Move Task-command supports a fluent planning process by moving tasks of the currently open document to the next working day. For instance, if your current document is inbox Move Task will move the task to today, but only if today is a working day. If today is a Sunday Move Task will move the task to the next Monday (according to your working day settings as described below). Shifting tasks from inbox to today comes in handy for your morning planning routine: Open your inbox and move all today's task to your todo note of today. Today's note will be created automatically if it doesn't exist.

If your active document is today Move Task moves a task to the next working day. This becomes useful when you finish your work day but have unfinished tasks left that you would like to work on tomorrow. The tomorrow file will also be created automatically if it doesn't exist.

And finally, if your current document is yesterday Move Task moves the task to today. This command is helpful when you didn't finish some of yesterday's tasks and forgot to move them to the next day on the day before.

Settings

The plugin allows you to define the set of your specific working days according to the following format:

Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri

The order of the days is not relevant.

License

• Apache License, Version 2.0