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.
Continue Reading »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.com"
$env:GIT_WORK_USERNAME = "myworknameoralias"
Script to update aliases. Add to your profile or a function in your profile that you can call when you want.
Continue Reading »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.