Not the most elegant solution, but it works. Thought I’d share just in case some other newbie out there is trying to figure out a similar thing.
In my Daily Notes template I added the following search query to display recurring notes for Today and for this month.
Prerequisites:
All my notes include the date, either in the filename or in the text.
The date format is YYYYMMDD (e.g., 19981230)
I use a tag called #annual
For recurring events today:
tag:annual /^[0-9]{4}{{date:MMDD}}/
Explanation
/ begin regex, ^ starts with, [0-9]{4} 4 digits 0-9 (so any year), {{date:MMDD}} followed by today’s month and day, / end regex (although this doesn’t seem to be required for it to work)
For recurring events this month (excluding today)
tag:annual /^[0-9]{4}{{date:MM}}/ -/^[0-9]{6}{{date:DD}}/
Same as above, but adds an exclusion
Explanation of exclusion
- exclude / begin regex, ^-0-9]{6} item starts with 6 digits, and ends with today’s date {{date:DD}}, / end regex
I would love my 2nd query to be Upcoming in the next 7 days instead, or to at least exclude everything before today’s date for this month, but I haven’t figured out how to do that.
Note: I’m a complete regex (and Obsidian) newbie, so I will probably not be able to answer any questions if you need to modify anything to suit your own purposes. You would have to hope that the experts wander in.
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