I’m trying to find a way to use Obsidian as my main GTD engine.
My main use case that I’m struggling to find a solution for is an automatically generated next actions list, similar to Nirvana or OmniFocus.
Specifically, it should:
-check each file marked as a project
-collate the first task listed in each project
-pick up the next task upon completion
Is this something currently achievable? I was looking at the DataView and Tasks plug-ins.
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I think it should be possible with DataView (I don’t know enough about Tasks). Essentially you’d be selecting the first incomplete task from certain files. I can’t provide detail’s because I don’t actually use DataView, but it has fairly good documentation. If that doesn’t help, maybe someone here can. There’s also a DataView channel or thread (and another for tasks or task management) in Obsidian’s Discord server.
holroy
March 24, 2023, 5:18pm
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It’s doable, and it has been done before, so see something like the following:
That is the problem of just give you a solution without context and previous attempts.
In the case you’ve no idea of the consequences of the command “GROUP BY” in the query.
The code has a order of commands, and some commands have consequences in the data structure on the background. The final reflection of that process is in the initial lines (the lines that define the columns, the last thing to consider in a table query).
The command GROUP BY something produces two things: the key (the some…
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Thank you! Just need to adjust for my workflow (or adjust my workflow for it).
system
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June 22, 2023, 10:35pm
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