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SEARCH FOR AND DISPLAY LIST OF CALLOUTS (WITH LINKS TO NOTES) IN A SPECIFIED FOLDER WITH A SPECIFIED TAG:

I scrolled through a fair amount of this thread looking for a way to list ‘todo’ callouts with a link, but only in a specific folder with a specified tag. I could not find it, so I am posting this for posterity’s sake. Credit to this question thread which allowed me to form a base to build this.

```dataviewjs
// Replace TAG with whatever tag you wish.
const pages = dv.pages('#TAG')

//Use the regular expression to define what kind of Callout you want to check
//Replace !todo with whatever callout type you wish.
const regex = />\s\[\!todo\]\s(.+?)((\n>\s.*?)*)\n/

//check for more types of callouts by adding new const regex# where # is a number
const regex2 = />\s\[\!TODO\]\s(.+?)((\n>\s.*?)*)\n/

const rows = []
for (const page of pages) {
    const file = app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath(page.file.path);
    //get file path as string
    var checkMe = "" + page.file.path;
    // Read the file contents
    const contents = await app.vault.read(file)
    // Extract the summary via regex
	for (const callout of contents.match(new RegExp(regex, 'sg')) || []) {

        //check if the file path is in your designated file path.
        //change FILEPATH to any keyword, folder name, or file path
        //You can also change to exclude a file path by changing "==true" to "!=true"
	    if(checkMe.includes('FILEPATH') == true){
		    const match = callout.match(new RegExp(regex, 's')) 
		    rows.push([match[1], page.file.link])
		}
    }

     //duplicate the for loop for each const regex# you created
     //adjust regex to the appropriate name
    for (const callout of contents.match(new RegExp(regex2, 'sg')) || []) {
	    if(checkMe.includes('FILEPATH') == true){
		    const match = callout.match(new RegExp(regex2, 's')) 
		    rows.push([match[1], page.file.link])
		}
    }
}

dv.table(['Term', 'Link'], rows)
```

I am still playing with this, and if I update it, I will edit this post or reply to it.
Hope this helps someone.

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