Obsidian Quick Note Task

Capture notes and tasks in seconds from your macOS menu bar, directly into your Obsidian daily note.

Download DMG • Quick Start • Why It Stands Out

Why People Like It

• Capture from the menu bar without breaking your flow.
• Write straight to your Obsidian daily note (YYYY-MM-DD - Note.md).
• Add tasks with an optional due date from a calendar picker.
• See due-today and overdue tasks directly in the menu dropdown.
• Filter visible dropdown tasks with a configurable exclusion text.
• Complete tasks from dropdown and auto-reschedule recurring tasks.
• Clean focused UI with inline confirmations and fast close-on-success.
• Simple distribution via GitHub Releases.

Product Snapshot

• Platform: macOS (.app + .dmg)
• Stack: Swift + AppKit
• UX model: menu bar first, configuration-aware actions
• Storage: local filesystem only (your Obsidian vault)

Demo Screens

1. Menu Dropdown (due/overdue + actions)

2. Quick Note Capture

3. New Task (due date + recurrence column)

4. Settings

Recurring Tasks

Recurring tasks are detected with a 🔁 rule at the end of a task line.

Supported recurrence rules:

• 🔁 every day or 🔁 daily
• 🔁 every week or 🔁 weekly
• 🔁 every month or 🔁 monthly
• 🔁 every year or 🔁 yearly
• 🔁 every N day(s) (example: 🔁 every 3 days)
• 🔁 every N week(s) (example: 🔁 every 2 weeks)
• 🔁 every N month(s) (example: 🔁 every 2 months)
• 🔁 every N year(s) (example: 🔁 every 2 years)

Example:

- [ ] Pay rent 📅 2026-03-03 🔁 every month

When a recurring task is completed from the dropdown, the app marks it done and appends the next occurrence automatically.

Quick Start

1. Download the latest DMG from the section below.
2. Move ObsidianQuickNoteTask.app to /Applications.
3. For personal unsigned builds, run once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/ObsidianQuickNoteTask.app"

4. Launch the app, open Settings, then configure:
   • your local Obsidian vault,
   • your default folder where notes/tasks are created.

Or install/update automatically in one command:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blamouche/obsidian-quick-note-task/main/scripts/install_latest.sh)

Latest DMG Download

Latest DMG: https://github.com/blamouche/obsidian-quick-note-task/releases/download/1.1.15/ObsidianQuickNoteTask-1.1.15.dmg Last update: 2026-03-09 (UTC)

Local Development

swift build
swift run ObsidianQuickNoteTaskApp

Release Automation

GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/release.yml) automatically:

• builds a production app bundle,
• packages a DMG,
• publishes it to GitHub Releases,
• updates this README download link,
• updates Releases.md with versioned "Added" notes.

Versioning Strategy

Versioning follows X.Y.Z with CI automation:

• X.0.0 (major) only on explicit manual request (workflow_dispatch with major_bump=true in .github/workflows/versioning.yml).
• 0.Y.0 (minor) automatically when a new branch is seen for the first time.
• 0.Y.Z (patch) automatically on each commit push (patch increment based on pushed commits count).

Canonical version is stored in VERSION. Branch creation markers are tracked in .versioning/branches/.

Current Limitations

• In this environment, swift test may fail if XCTest is unavailable in the active toolchain.