The “Today” to-do panel that sits beside your Gantt chart — focus on what matters most today and see at a glance what to do next.
Open Obsidian each day and the side panel lists everything you should be doing today — tasks due by today, tasks already overdue and tasks in progress. Nothing slips through.
The Today panel is the right-hand panel of the Gantt chart and shares the same view area. Open the Gantt chart and the daily to-do list appears on the right automatically.
The panel collects three kinds of task automatically:
| Category | What it means | Marker |
|---|---|---|
| 📅 Due today | Tasks whose due date is today | Blue marker |
| 📅 Overdue | Tasks that are past their due date | Red marker |
| 🔄 In progress | Tasks currently being worked on | Green marker |
For a task that is already overdue, you can push its due date to today in a couple of clicks:
Locate the task in the “Overdue” group of the Today panel.
Click the “⏰” button on the right of the task and choose tomorrow or a specific date.
The plugin updates the due date in your note and the task moves from “Overdue” to “Due today”.
When several people share the same vault, you can look at just your own work:
Find the filter button at the top of the panel and click “Only my tasks”.
The board filters itself and shows only tasks tagged #role/mine.
Click the “Only ones I raised” filter to show only tasks tagged #src/mine — the tasks you created yourself.
Switch today's to-dos to a kanban view, laid out in columns by task status — as clear as Trello.
Find the kanban/list toggle at the top of the panel (the 📋 icon).
Today's to-dos move from list mode to kanban mode, showing cards in columns by status.
Sub-tasks in the Today panel show their parent task (marked with 📂), so you always know where a task belongs.
The Today panel width can be dragged to fit:
Hover over the divider between the Gantt chart and the Today panel; the cursor turns into a two-way arrow.
Hold the left mouse button and drag left or right to resize the panel.
In the Task Nexus settings, the following options change how the Today panel behaves:
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Today panel | Show or hide the Today panel | On |
| Default panel width | Default width of the Today panel in pixels | 320px |
| Default view mode | List mode or kanban mode | List mode |
| Overdue group sorting | How overdue tasks are sorted | By days overdue |
| Show parent tasks | Show the parent-task hierarchy in the panel | On |
| Scenario | How to use it |
|---|---|
| Daily kick-off | Open Obsidian and the side panel tells you what to do today |
| Morning stand-up | Show the Today panel and sync the team's plan for the day fast |
| Task focus | Drag cards in kanban mode to update task statuses quickly |
| Working with others | Filter by “Only my tasks” to focus on your own items |