What is dotpm used for?

dotpm is an Obsidian plugin that adds project management with table, Gantt and Kanban views over plain Markdown notes and a local API for agents. It is a good fit for project planning inside an Obsidian vault and letting coding agents update tasks.

Is dotpm open source?

Yes. dotpm is open source under the MIT licence. Its source code is on GitHub at dotpm/obsidian-pm and is written mainly in TypeScript.

Yes. dotpm is open source, so the software itself is free to use.

Can I self-host dotpm?

Yes. dotpm can be self-hosted on your own server or infrastructure; there is no official hosted version.

What is dotpm an alternative to?

dotpm is an open-source alternative to Trello and Asana. Other open-source alternatives to Trello include Leantime, Kanboard and Vikunja.

Is dotpm actively maintained?

Yes. The most recent commit to dotpm was on 1 October 2026, and the latest release is 2.5.2, published on 21 September 2026. The project has 736 stars on GitHub.

dotpm: open-source alternative to Trello, Asana

About dotpm

dotpm brings project management into Obsidian by keeping the plan and the thinking about it in the same vault. A project is a note, a task is a note, and the table, the timeline and the board are three ways of viewing the same files.

Tasks have start and due dates and dependencies shown as arrows, and a Gantt chart moves dependent tasks when a blocker slips. Because tasks are full notes with a body, backlinks, tags and properties, Obsidian search, graph, templates and Dataview all work on them. A local HTTP and MCP server and a command-line client edit the same notes, so a coding agent or script can pick up a task, update it and close it. Any view can be exported to a single HTML file that opens without Obsidian.

There is nothing to sign up for: projects sync with whatever already syncs your vault, and the project folder can be diffed in Git. It needs Obsidian 1.13 or newer, works on desktop and mobile, installs from Community plugins or through BRAT for betas, and is licensed under MIT.

Key features

Table, Gantt and Kanban views
Task dependencies and scheduling
Tasks stored as full Markdown notes
Local HTTP, MCP and CLI for agents
Export of views to one HTML file
Works on desktop and mobile

Good fit for

→Project planning inside an Obsidian vault
→Letting coding agents update tasks

Built with: TypeScript
Tags: obsidian; project-management; gantt; kanban; markdown; plugin; mcp; task-manager

dotpm: questions and answers

What is dotpm used for?: dotpm is an Obsidian plugin that adds project management with table, Gantt and Kanban views over plain Markdown notes and a local API for agents. It is a good fit for project planning inside an Obsidian vault and letting coding agents update tasks.
Is dotpm open source?: Yes. dotpm is open source under the MIT licence. Its source code is on GitHub at dotpm/obsidian-pm and is written mainly in TypeScript.
Is dotpm free?: Yes. dotpm is open source, so the software itself is free to use.
Can I self-host dotpm?: Yes. dotpm can be self-hosted on your own server or infrastructure; there is no official hosted version.
What is dotpm an alternative to?: dotpm is an open-source alternative to Trello and Asana. Other open-source alternatives to Trello include Leantime, Kanboard and Vikunja.
Is dotpm actively maintained?: Yes. The most recent commit to dotpm was on 1 October 2026, and the latest release is 2.5.2, published on 21 September 2026. The project has 736 stars on GitHub.