Automate dataview -> plain text list / How to build a file.mdate-history?

[holroy]

In this reply I’m answering on how to include stuff to be permanently saved into the new note, instead of being a dynamic query.

How to add links to random notes to daily note

I guess you didn’t see the note I made on tR, or understood it, for the following code only stores the result of the code into your new note: <%* const noOfNotes = 5 const files = app.vault.getFiles() for (let i = 0; i < noOfNotes; i++) { const random = Math.floor(Math.random() * (files.length - 1)) const randomNote = files[random] tR += `- [[ ${randomNote.path} | ${ randomNote.basename } ]]\n` } %> I’ve also included the option to specify how many ran…

So the gist of how to do this is:

• Use a Javascript execution command block, starting with <%*
• Do your query and store the result, using something like either dv.query() or dv.tryQuery(), see Codeblock Reference - Dataview
• And present the results back into the note by assigning the values into the tR variable, using something like dv.markdownList() to format the response.
• Alternatively, especially if you don’t want/need to handle the storage/evaluation of the query result (which I most often want to tinker a little bit with), you can also do something like tR += await tryQueryMarkdown( ... )(I’ve not used this one, yet, so not entirely sure of the syntax, but try it out) (This step would replace the two preceding bullet points