Extract tasks from Obsidian vault with Github actions

2021-08-11 3 min read Obsidian

I wanted to be able to pull my tasks out of my vault as a summary view, this can open up future automation options for me. However as I use multiple devices no single place was great and if I am on my phone it makes it harder.

As I am synchronizing my vault with git I decided to use a github workflow to help me out. I have it setup to run once a hour and extract all the tasks that are visible in the Obsidian Tasks plugin. These can be found as they always have the global task tag in them. In this example I use #task, update the regex as needed.

Auto Update Git Aliases

2019-04-02 2 min read Development

Because I am lazy I wrote a script so I can update all my machines from the one location which is the gist below. This works in powershell core. Again this is mostly for me but feel free to use as needed. Update your $profile to have th following environment variable set. This will allows the wid and pid aliases to work correctly. $env:GIT_PERSONAL_EMAIL = "personal@personal.com" $env:GIT_PERSONAL_USERNAME = "myname" $env:GIT_WORK_EMAIL = "work@work. Continue reading

Using git aliases part two

2019-03-28 1 min read Development

This is a update to Using git aliases. A few extra commands and a bit of a cleanup. ~I should move it to a gist at some point.~ Update: Moved the contents to a gist.