2025 GitHub Heatmap

2025 GitHub Heatmap

Looking at a GitHub contribution graph is like looking at a mirror of your year. My 2025 graph tells a very specific story: a quiet first half followed by a second half that was busy, very busy.

I did create a bunch of poc-xxxx repositories and frequently updated my personal projects, but the real drivers behind that green heat-map were my website updates and, most significantly, Obsidian.

For me finding the balance between note-taking and task management has been a long struggle.

If there has been a todo app, I have tried it. If there has been a note taking app, I have tried it.

I’ve always been a “handwritten notes” person. For a while, the reMarkable tablet was my perfect middle ground. It gave me infinite notebooks, a tactile feel, and seamless desktop syncing.

But there was a catch: the to-do items were a pain.

Every evening, I found myself manually migrating pending tasks to the next day. Because I organize my lists by project, tracking multiple moving parts became a manual chore that drained my momentum. At the same time, I was using Obsidian as a library for ideas and project notes.

Everything changed when a someone I was working with introduced me to the Tasks plugin. It seems like an obvious addition in hindsight, but it was the missing link I needed.

And to solve my sync issues, I added a second plugin: Obsidian Git.

Together, these two tools completely overhauled my workflow.

  • Centralized Tasks: By using a #task tag and a due date, the plugin automatically aggregates every checkbox from across my vault into a single Todo.md file. No more manual migration.

    Obsidian Tasks

    Obsidian Tasks

  • Automated Sync: I configured the Git plugin to push my updates to GitHub exactly one minute after my last edit. I went from manual syncing to a “set it and forget it” system that accounts for those frequent contributions on my graph.

Since July, I’ve finally stopped fighting my tools. I’ve settled into a three-step rhythm that actually sticks:

  1. Deep Thinking: All raw notes and brainstorming stay on the reMarkable.
  2. Task Management: All to-dos are managed via Obsidian using the Tasks plugin.
  3. Knowledge Archiving: Any notes worth keeping long-term are polished and moved from the tablet into Obsidian.

That is my big productivity hack for 2026. To be reviewed by the end of 2026 😀.

./J