Dataview Query to Show Uncompleted Task (with option to push them back / ignore them)

[jentrepreneurj]

Hi guys,

I have a rather specific use-case for task and would love to hear any suggestion

1. I want to see all uncompleted task (i.e. today is Tuesday and i didn’t finish all my task yesterday, I want to see what I tasks I have left from Monday)

2. I want there to be a way to i.e. “ignore” a task that is irrelevant already. i.e. perhaps last Friday I had a task called “Call John if I need book from him”, and it’s not necessary anymore, I want to maybe click a button or add a “#ignore” tag to remove the task from my query. (i know i can just check off this task but i prefer not to do it this way so I can know what task i really completed vs ignored in the future)

3. It’s fine if not possible, but I hope I can push some tasks to further dates (i.e. I have this task on Tuesday that I really can’t finish until next Tuesday, can I somehow push it to the following Tuesday (or whatever date) in this dataview query or some other efficient manner.

I know my use case is quite nuanced, but I can achieve 1. and 2. with my current dataview query

Current Dataview Query

TASK
WHERE !completed AND text != ""
GROUP BY header

This will show all the unfinished tasked group by filename. The only caveat is I HAVE to check off the checkbox in order to “ignore” them.

Really appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

[holroy]

I use the same kind of setup, where the tasks keeps on populating my query of unfinished task. The only change related to your setup is that I’m using the - to denote canceled tasks.

@jentrepreneurj

I want there to be a way to i.e. “ignore” a task that is irrelevant already.

So when I want to ignore/cancel a task, I hit the task text from the query, enter the - into the task field, and go back to the query, or continue onwards with other actions.

I’ve recently also posted a template to cancel tasks with a cancel date (for use on the task definition) which might be of interest:

Dataview query on all tasks with modified status. Possible or not?

I kept on thinking about this, and decided to expand the template a little, and give it some more options, and I ended up with this template: <%* const consoleDebug = true let sel = tp.file.selection() newStatusDict = [ ["Cancel task", "-", "canceled", true ], ["Task in progress", "/", "started", true ], ["Complete task", "x", "completion", false ], ["Complete task ", "x", "", false ], ["Clear the task", " ", "removeComments", false ], ] const newStatus = await tp.s…

@jentrepreneurj

It’s fine if not possible, but I hope I can push some tasks to further dates

I’m not using that, but you could add start dates to your task, and modify the query so it only includes tasks without start dates, or a start date in the past. That way you add push a task to next tuesday by setting the start date to that date.