Plain Markdown project management: AI drives it all with no API or MCP
dSebastien · x · 2026-09-28
The author highlights the most underrated benefit of managing projects in plain Markdown files: your AI assistant can drive the whole system. Ask it for the status of a task in Obsidian and it reads the file directly; ask it to move every task of a project to Done and it edits the frontmatter properties. No API, no integration, no MCP server required—just files.
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