Dataview currently supports a few emoji-based shorthands for dates (see doc). They are:
- Due Date:
🗓️YYYY-MM-DD
- Completed Date:
✅YYYY-MM-DD
- Created Date:
➕YYYY-MM-DD
A useful feature would be to allow users to expand the set of shorthands. For example, what if a Dataview had a setting to specify emoji - field name pairs? Users can then specify the emoji shorthand-field name combinations that they need.
In my specific case, I’m trying to cross-utilize Dataview and Tasks plugin. Tasks plugin uses other emojis for Scheduled and Start dates. If the above feature existed, I could go in to Dataview settings and specify:
dddd-dd-dd to be [scheduled::dddd-dd-dd]
dddd-dd-dd to be [start::dddd-dd-dd]
where d = 0-9.
This would enable users to do much more than adapt Dataview to other plugins, such as Tasks. Users could, as they want, create their own shorthand emojis for data fields.