Dataview lookup of mentions of "today"

[paulsnedden]

Things I have tried

I have a “dashboard” markdown file that I am using as the source for a canvas I am building. Each section of the canvas is loaded into it’s own card on the canvas, to represent different things (my agenda for the day, tasks, a weather widget, and so on).

What I’m trying to do

The one I’m stuck on is what I call “mentions of today”. What I’d like is a dataview script which will search my vault for any file that has a reference to today’s date (in YYYY-mm-DD format). I have this working in my current DailyNote setup using the following:

Table Created, Tags
from [[#this.file.name]]
where !contains(Tags,“MeetingNote”) and
!contains(Tags,“DailyNote”) and
!contains(file.name, this.file.name)

The problem with me moving to this dashboard/canvas setup is that I can no longer use “from [[#this.file.name]]”. I’m stumped as to how I might be able to do this and not have to change the script every day.

Any suggestions welcome.

[Dovos]

the question is if the “reference to today” is just the string of the date or a link to the daily note. if it is a link then this code should work.

Table Created, Tags
from ""
where !contains(Tags,“MeetingNote”) and
!contains(Tags,“DailyNote”) and
!contains(file.name, this.file.name)
where contains(file.outlinks, link(string(date("today"))))

if it is just a plain string then it isn’t possible with DQL because DQL can’t search through plain text.

[paulsnedden]

BOOM. That’s the thing I was missing. I need to read up more on the various elements available in dataview. Thank you so much, @Dovos that’s exactly what I needed.