hasanyilmaz/operon

Operon is a task management plugin for Obsidian, the notes app that stores everything as plain Markdown files. The README pitches it as a way to keep tasks inside your vault rather than in a separate to-do app, while still giving each task structured metadata, a stable identifier, and views like Calendar and Kanban. The plugin treats both checkbox lines inside a note (inline tasks) and standalone task files (file tasks) as members of one indexed system, so the same task can be filtered, edited, or scheduled regardless of which form it lives in. Each task gets an operonId that the plugin uses to recognize it across notes, the Pinned Task Dock, Calendar, Kanban, recurrence, and time tracking views. The README emphasizes that a task can be converted between inline and file shapes without losing its core fields, since the system preserves what it calls canonical task information through those conversions. Creating tasks is the area the README spends most time on. The plugin offers more than twenty ways to make or convert tasks: the main Task Creator, the ribbon icon, command palette commands, inline task chips, a selection-to-task command, conversions from a normal Markdown checkbox, and various context-aware insertions from Calendar or Kanban. Quick capture stays minimal, while the richer Task Creator surfaces fields for priority, status, parent, schedule, deadline, recurrence, pinned state, assignees, and contexts. The plugin also handles wider features the README sections off: planning surfaces, reusable filtered views, recurrence rules, time tracking, and behaviors for promoting work into a standalone file once it needs sections, references, or a body. The README states the target audience is Obsidian users whose work spans daily notes, project notes, meeting notes, recurring responsibilities, or agent-assisted workflows. Operon is written in TypeScript and lives as an Obsidian plugin. The README includes several screenshots illustrating the Calendar workflow, the Task Creator, and tasks appearing together in filtered views.