Morgen TaskNotes Sync

This Obsidian helper keeps TaskNotes’ frontmatter status in step with the boolean completed flag that Morgen expects when importing task notes. Any change coming from TaskNotes is mirrored to Morgen’s property, and any change Morgen writes back is translated into the correct TaskNotes status—without bouncing the note between states.

Copy the contents of dist/ into .obsidian/plugins/morgen-tasknotes/ to install locally. Use npm run dev while developing to rebuild automatically.

• The plugin never touches the reference taskNotes/ workspace—only notes inside your vault.
• Recurrence, reminders, and other TaskNotes properties are left alone; Morgen only needs tags, priority, due_date, duration, and the boolean completed.
• If you add or rename TaskNotes statuses or boolean fields, the plugin notices on the next note change and refreshes its mapping automatically.
• This is provided untested, it's for me, and I fully expect the functionality to be wrapped into either morgen-obsidian or Task Notes
• Recurrance is untested (we'll see how we go this week)

How it Works

• Reads TaskNotes’ settings at runtime (field mapping, custom statuses, default status).
• Builds an internal map of which statuses represent “done” vs “open”.
• Chooses or reuses a boolean frontmatter property for Morgen (completed by default, or the first boolean user field you defined).
• Uses lightweight state tracking to avoid loops when Morgen immediately re-reads the same note after we write to it.
• Clears the cached state whenever TaskNotes’ settings change so new statuses are picked up automatically.

Status ↔︎ Completed Mapping

• All TaskNotes statuses you have marked as “completed” become completed: true.
• Every other status becomes completed: false.
• When Morgen flips completed to true, the plugin assigns your configured default completed status, or falls back to a sensible built-in (done).
• When Morgen flips completed to false, it assigns your TaskNotes default task status, or the first incomplete status it knows about (falling back to open).
• If you store statuses or booleans as arrays (for example via templates), the plugin picks the first meaningful value it sees.

Some housekeeping setup

• I wanted to keep this as lightweight as possible, so where we can re-use frontmatter fields, we do
• So in Task Notes change the following Task Notes - Property Fields -- Due Date > date -- Time Estimate > duration

Commands

• Sync active note with Morgen – run the synchronisation logic for the focused file.
• Sync all TaskNotes files – check every markdown file in the vault (runs once on workspace load).

Installation & Build

npm install
npm run build

Copy the contents of dist/ into .obsidian/plugins/morgen-tasknotes/ to install locally. Use npm run dev while developing to rebuild automatically.