Giganttix

Visualise your task notes as a draggable Gantt chart in Obsidian

Giganttix scans your vault for notes with date frontmatter and renders them as an interactive timeline. Each note is one bar. Drag a bar to reschedule the task & the new dates are written back to the note's frontmatter. Click a bar to open the note in a new tab, right-click it to change its status.

Originally built as a companion to TaskNotes, but should works with any notes that carry date frontmatter.

How it works

Add dates to any note's frontmatter and it appears on the chart:

---
startDate: 2026-06-05
endDate: 2026-06-30
status: In progress
client: "[[Moe's Tavern]]"
progress: 40
---

Field	Required	Notes
startDate	yes*	YYYY-MM-DD
endDate	yes*	same formats
status	no	powers the status filter and the right-click menu
client	no	shown after the task name
progress	no	0–100, rendered as a darker segment inside the bar

Field names are case-insensitive. Don't like startDate/endDate? Point the plugin at your own property names in the settings (e.g. due, scheduled).

Features

• Drag to reschedule : move or resize a bar; frontmatter updates atomically
• Drag the progress handle : hover a bar and drag the small handle to set % complete, written to progress
• Click a bar to open its note in a new tab (focuses the existing tab if it's already open)
• Right-click a bar to change its status without leaving the chart, or open the note
• Day, Week & Month views
• Today button to jump back to the current date
• Status filter built from your actual status values
• Custom statuses : define your own status list in settings, with suggestions pulled from your notes as you type
• Custom date properties : use any frontmatter properties for start and end dates
• Tooltips : hover any bar for full name, client, dates, status, and progress
• Weekend shading in Day view
• Scope your tasks : limit the chart to a folder and/or require a frontmatter property (e.g. only notes with a projects property)
• Status colors : keep the theme accent color, or assign a color per status in settings

Usage

Open the chart from the ribbon icon or the command palette.

Settings

Setting	What it does
Default view	Day, Week or Month on open
Default status filter	Status selected on open (case-insensitive); empty = first available
Remember last used view and filter	On: reopening restores your last state. Off: always open with the defaults
Folder	Only show notes from this folder (subfolders included); empty = whole vault
Required property	Only show notes that have this frontmatter property, e.g. projects
Start date property	Frontmatter property read for the start date; empty = startDate
End date property	Frontmatter property read for the end date; empty = endDate
Statuses	Statuses always offered in the right-click menu, in your order
Color bars by status	Off: theme accent color. On: per-status color pickers

Installation

Community plugins: Settings → Community plugins → Browse → search "Giganttix".

Notes and limitations

• Desktop only for now.

Acknowledgements

Built with TypeScript and esbuild on top of Frappe Gantt (MIT). Developed with Claude Cowork (Anthropic).

License

MIT