Callum Alpass
Callum Alpass is an individual/solo developer and open-source creator, not a separately identified company. He builds TaskNotes, a file-first task-management system that keeps structured task records in portable Markdown and makes them usable in Obsidian, the web, Android, and iOS; the official site describes the shared model as status, priority, dates, projects, contexts, recurrence, reminders, relationships, and custom fields.
At a Glance
- Obsidian users
- Individuals seeking local-first or portable task management
- Knowledge workers managing projects, habits, calendars, and time tracking
- Developers and power users needing Markdown, Bases, APIs, webhooks, MCP, or CLI automation
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AI Tools by Callum Alpass
(1)TaskNotes
Task Tracker for Obsidian
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Latest News
TaskNotes 4.13.1 stable release; 5.0.0-beta.3 remains the opt-in v5 beta.
TaskNotes 4.13.0 release added authenticated HTTP API/MCP clients and a dedicated v5/app beta announcement section.
TaskNotes Workflows 0.1.4 release for Markdown-defined workflow automation.
TaskNotes v5/app beta documentation described portable mdbase collections and mdbase Connect as the shared data model and relay.
Products & Services
Open-source Obsidian task-management plugin in which every task is a separate Markdown note and views are powered by Obsidian Bases.
Web-first client packaged for Android and iOS, compatible with TaskNotes v5 collections using the mdbase 0.3.0 specification; supports hosted or encrypted-relay Markdown collections.
Optional Obsidian companion plugin for Markdown-defined automation, including task events, schedules, manual commands, typed actions, and editable workflow notes.
Command-line companion exposing task creation and operations, search, JSON output, and calendar commands for Google, Microsoft, and subscriptions.
Market Position
TaskNotes differentiates from conventional database-backed task managers by treating each task as a portable Markdown note and using Obsidian Bases files as inspectable views. It is positioned alongside other Obsidian task tools such as the Tasks plugin, but emphasizes one-note-per-task structure, richer metadata, calendar/time tracking, APIs, and a shared v5/mdbase model spanning Obsidian and standalone clients.
Leadership
Founders
Callum Alpass
Independent software developer and maintainer of the callumalpass GitHub projects. GitHub identifies him as the author of TaskNotes, and the repository manifest names him as author; the Obsidian Hub lists him as author of the BibLib plugin as well.
Executive Team
Callum Alpass
Creator and maintainer
GitHub repository owner and named author of TaskNotes; also associated with the BibLib Obsidian plugin and related mdbase/TaskNotes companion projects.
Founding Story
TaskNotes began from a file-first, portable-data vision: each task is its own Markdown note with YAML frontmatter rather than a plugin-specific database. The project uses Obsidian Bases for views so users can read, edit, transform, and migrate their task data with ordinary tools. The later v5/app direction extends the same portable model to shared mdbase collections across Obsidian and standalone clients.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The core TaskNotes Obsidian plugin is open source under the MIT License. The standalone web/Android/iOS TaskNotes app is in beta; the fetched official pages describe hosted mdbase and encrypted-relay connectivity but do not state a paid pricing model.
Pricing Tiers
Open-source plugin distributed through its public GitHub repository and Obsidian Community Plugins.
Target Markets
- Obsidian users
- Individuals seeking local-first or portable task management
- Knowledge workers managing projects, habits, calendars, and time tracking
- Developers and power users needing Markdown, Bases, APIs, webhooks, MCP, or CLI automation
- Users wanting web, Android, and iOS access to shared Markdown task collections
- Personal task and project management inside an Obsidian vault
- Daily planning, agenda review, calendar scheduling, and timeboxing
- Recurring habits and maintenance workflows with completion history
- Project-centered planning using project notes, wikilinks, filters, and Bases dashboards
- Calendar-linked work with Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, or ICS feeds
- Automation, reporting, external dashboards, and integrations through the API, webhooks, MCP, CLI, or companion plugins