Everything you need to manage projects inside Obsidian

Seven powerful views, bidirectional markdown sync, and a vault-first architecture. Project Planner gives you professional-grade project management without ever leaving your notes.

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📊 Your command center

Dashboard View

Get a high-level overview of all your projects with visual project cards, clickable KPI metrics, effort summaries, and budget tracking. Drill into overdue tasks, due dates, and priority counts with a single click.

  • Clickable KPI cards open filtered task lists
  • Completion progress bar per project
  • Effort summary and budget vs actual cost tracking
  • Overdue, Due Today, and Due This Week alerts
  • Real-time updates as tasks change
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Project Planner Dashboard View
☀️ Your personal daily hub

My Tasks

A cross-project view of everything due today, this week, or this month — regardless of which project tasks belong to. Three tabs (Today, Week, Month) keep your personal workload front and centre.

  • Aggregates tasks from every project
  • Today, Week, and Month tabs
  • Outlook-style weekly calendar grid
  • Monthly calendar with task pills and overflow count
  • New task form creates tasks due today instantly
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Project Planner My Tasks View
📋 The power of a spreadsheet

Grid View

Manage tasks in a powerful, hierarchical spreadsheet-like interface. Sort, filter, and inline-edit across customizable columns — with parent roll-up, effort tracking, and drag-and-drop reordering.

  • Hierarchical task organization with subtasks
  • Customizable, sortable, and reorderable columns
  • Effort, cost, duration, and % complete columns
  • MS Project-style parent roll-up for dates and effort
  • Inline editing for quick updates
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Project Planner Grid View
🗂️ Kanban-style workflows

Board View

Visualize your workflow with a Kanban-style board. Organize tasks into customizable colour-coded buckets, drag cards between columns, and see optional checklist or description previews directly on cards.

  • Customizable, colour-coded buckets per project
  • Card preview: show checklist or description on the card
  • Cut, copy, and paste tasks between buckets
  • Move tasks to a different project from the context menu
  • Active and completed sections per bucket
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Project Planner Board View
📅 Gantt chart scheduling

Timeline View

Plan and schedule projects with an interactive Gantt chart. Drag task bars to adjust dates, see MS Project-style dependency arrows, and let auto-scheduling cascade date changes through your dependency chain.

  • Interactive drag-and-resize timeline bars
  • SVG dependency arrows (FS, SS, FF, SF)
  • Auto-scheduling: predecessor date changes cascade automatically
  • Day, week, and month zoom levels
  • Go-to-date navigation and smart filtering
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Project Planner Timeline View
🔗 Visualize task relationships

Dependency Graph

An interactive force-directed network diagram of task dependencies. Understand how tasks connect, identify bottlenecks, and navigate directly to any task with a double-click.

  • Four dependency types: FS, SS, FF, SF
  • Force-directed simulation that settles automatically
  • Colour-coded nodes by task status
  • Double-click any node to open Task Details
  • Real-time sync with all other views
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Project Planner Dependency Graph
📝 Everything in one place

Task Details Panel

A dedicated sidebar panel for comprehensive task editing. Manage every task property — including effort tracking, cost tracking, and dependencies — without leaving your current view.

  • Effort tracking: Done, Remaining, % Complete auto-calculated
  • Cost tracking: Fixed or Hourly, Estimated vs Actual
  • Markdown description with live preview
  • Dependency manager with FS/SS/FF/SF type selection
  • Move task to another project from the panel
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Project Planner Task Details Panel

Core Features

Beyond views, Project Planner is built on powerful foundations that make your data portable, private, and deeply integrated with Obsidian.

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Bidirectional Markdown Sync

Create tasks in the visual interface or write them directly in Markdown — Project Planner keeps everything in sync. Edit YAML frontmatter, use Dataview queries, and integrate with your existing Obsidian workflow.

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Vault-Native Storage

Each project's tasks are stored in a .planner-tasks.json file inside your vault — Git-trackable and synced by Obsidian Sync. Settings live in data.json. No external databases, no proprietary cloud formats.

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Effort & Cost Tracking

Track hours done and remaining per task. % Complete is calculated automatically. Set task costs as fixed amounts or derived from effort × hourly rate. Monitor budget vs actual spend on the Dashboard.

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MS Project-Style Roll-Up & Scheduling

Parent tasks automatically aggregate dates, effort, and % complete from their children. When a predecessor task's dates change, all dependent tasks shift automatically to maintain the dependency relationship.

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Daily Notes Tagging

Tag tasks from your Daily Notes and have them automatically imported into Project Planner. Seamlessly bridge your daily journaling workflow with structured project management.

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URI Deep Linking

Link directly to specific tasks from anywhere using the Obsidian URI protocol. Share task links in notes, chat, or documentation for instant one-click access.

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Rich task properties,
built for real projects

Every task in Project Planner supports a comprehensive set of properties that work across all six views. From simple to-dos to complex project plans, your tasks carry the context you need.

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✅ Custom statuses with configurable colours
🔥 Priority levels: Low, Medium, High, Critical
🏷️ Colour-coded tags for categorization
📅 Start dates, due dates, and auto-calculated duration
⏱️ Effort tracking: Done, Remaining, Total, % Complete
💰 Cost tracking: Fixed or Hourly, budget vs actual
📊 MS Project-style parent roll-up for dates, effort & cost
📋 Checklist subtasks with drag-to-reorder
🗂️ Per-project customizable buckets with colour coding
↔️ Four dependency types with auto-scheduling cascade
🎴 Board card preview: checklist or description on the card
🔗 Wiki links and external URL attachments
📝 Rich Markdown descriptions with live preview
🕐 Automatic created and last-modified timestamps
🔀 Move tasks between projects
🎯 Drag-and-drop across all views

Built on Obsidian's philosophy

Project Planner isn't trying to replace Obsidian — it's trying to enhance it. Everything follows the principles that make Obsidian great.

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Local-first

No cloud, no accounts, no external databases. Your vault is the single source of truth.

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Plain text

Standard markdown with YAML frontmatter. Readable by any text editor, forever.

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Private by design

Zero data leaves your device. Works entirely offline. No telemetry, no tracking.

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Flexible, not prescriptive

Six views, custom statuses, configurable buckets. Your workflow, your rules.

Ready to plan smarter?

Install Project Planner and transform your Obsidian vault into a project management powerhouse.

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