Dataview : Need Help Pulling Bullet Points That Match Specific Queries From Another File Into Daily Note

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1

Instead of using multiple files for daily notes I have been using 1 text file for 2023 with a bullet point for each entry beginning with the date, time, and the type of entry. I use Alfred on mac and Drafts on ios to quickly add entries to my 2023-s.md file.

My entries look like this:

- 230829 08:01 [[+thought]] : random thought goes here
- 230829 17:21 [[+reflection]] : reflection of the day goes here
- 230830 11:21 [[+thought]] : random thought goes here
- 230830 11:30 [[+thought]] : random thought goes here

Question:
How can I keep my 2023-s.md file usage exactly the same but I want to add using dataview in my daily note to pull specific bullet points and place them under their appropriate headers/callouts in my daily note?

How can I incorporate dataview in a way where its pulling all the bullet points from the 2023-s.md file that have TODAYs date (in yyMMdd format) & contains [[+thought]] in the bullet point?

What I am trying to do (Example):

	##thoughts
	```dataview
	- display bullet points from 2023-s.md
	- matching TODAYs Date (in yyMMdd format)
	- display only bullets points that contains "[[+thought]]"
	```




What I Tried So Far:

	## Thoughts
	```dataview
	LIST
	FROM "01 Projects/01 Daily Notes/2023-s.md"
	WHERE contains(text, "[[+thought]]")
	```

I can target the file (without the WHERE query), but thats as far as I can get it to work… targeting the specific bullet points within the file is what I’m struggling with.

2

You need to use FLATTEN file.lists as item on the 2023 file, and then limit the start of each item according to today’s date. To do the latter use a combination of substring() or startswith() , with a date formatted accordingly to your format.

Is this enough to get you going?

3

I wasn’t able to get too far with the docs… and for some reason my obsidian keeps freezing when I try to preview the dataview query.

Here’s what I have:

    ```dataview
    LIST
    FLATTEN file.lists as item
    FROM "01 Projects/01 Daily Notes/2023-s.md"
    ```

I also tried testing another file with barely any content but it also froze.

4

You’ll always need to do the FROM before any FLATTEN lines.

And here is a query doing the comparison on one of the dates at the start of the bullet point:

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
  item.text, 
  startswith(item.text, dateformat(date("2023-08-29"), "yyMMdd")) as dateMatch,
  contains(item.outlinks, [[+thought]]) as linkMatch
FROM "01 Projects/01 Daily Notes/2023-s.md"
FLATTEN file.lists as item
```

The expressions I’ve used in the columns can of course be used as WHERE expressions as well. And you typically use date(today) to get todays date.

5

The comparison table helps a lot! I can see what I need to do, so I will play around with the query some more and see if I can figure this out.

Thank you!