Obsidian users lack reliable project views over their Markdown notes
People managing projects in Obsidian want Kanban and other planning views without moving their work out of their notes. Available plugins are described as abandoned or incomplete, and users request dynamic boards that pull from existing notes, plus calendar, timeline, and portfolio views. Current workarounds include copying query results by hand or keeping project planning in another app.
For obsidian users managing projects in Markdown. Mentioned from Aug 2017 to Sep 2026 on Bluesky, product forums, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
29 different people described this problem in 17 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 4.0/10
- Pain
- 5.6/10
- Frequency
- 10.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.3/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Being able to pull list items and blocks from other notes, as specified by path or tag, into the kanban board, would be incredible. I'm currently trying to implement this myself in some way, perhaps by making a function in Templater that transcludes certain blocks from other notes, into the markdown of the kanban, unde…
I've seen people use Dataview to create a list of what they want, and then copy-paste into a new note - but it is a very manual process
Build brief
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