Allow usage in .txt files?

[greyfence]

Is it possible to allow this plugin to work in .txt files? To make my notes as portable as possible I always use the .txt extension on all my notes.

[claremacrae]

No, and that will never be possible.

Tasks used the Obsidian CachedMetada to parse files and find task lines.
And Obsidian only parses .md files.

[claremacrae]

Right, but if you do a built-in Obsidian search for a task in your .txt files, it will not find any. Because it does not index the content of .txt files in its cache.

[greyfence]

Ah, OK, I see that now. I haven't used the task feature before. It's disappointing that Obsidian treats txt files as second class citizens.

Thanks.

[claremacrae]

Well, it is entirely designed and advertised as a Markdown editor, so it's likely not the best use of the team's time to dilute effort across other formats like text which don't have a single largely-agreed content structure.

[greyfence]

Yes, and all my txt files are in markdown format so it would be great if I could just tell Obsidian to read .txt files as markdown files. The whole point of markdown was to have files that are readable with no special reader. Requiring the .md extension makes the files less portable than they would be if they have the .txt extension.

Anyway, it's not your issue. ;)

Thanks.

[claremacrae]

Thanks for the understanding.