Use Case
Stop doing repetitive documents & notes tasks manually. Obsidian Tasks lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. Set up and manage an Obsidian task board with Kanban + Dataview. Creates a Tasks/Board.md pipeline (Backlog/Todo/In Progress/Review/Done), per-task notes with YAML frontmatter (status/priority/category/due), and dashboards via Dataview queries. Use for task tracking, moving cards between columns, keeping board + frontmatter in sync, and linking tasks to supporting notes/research. This guide shows practical examples of using Obsidian Tasks to automate common documents & notes workflows and save hours every week.
Install Obsidian Tasks: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install obsidian-tasks
Identify the repetitive documents & notes tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
Obsidian Tasks will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Obsidian Tasks
Automate my documents & notes tasks using Obsidian Tasks
What repetitive tasks can Obsidian Tasks handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs Obsidian Tasks every morning
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install obsidian-tasksOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install obsidian-tasksβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/obsidian-tasks/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.