How to add "days remaining" field to tasks?

[Shajirr]

In the list of tasks, I want to either replace the due date with “X days remaining” in reader/preview views, for each task that has a due date listed, or add it in addition to it.

So in reader view a task would be something like:

task1, 2023-11-03, 3 days remaining

or

task1, 3 days remaining

Seems like a very basic feature, and yet I can’t find a single example of this anywhere.

So far the only way I found that might work, and its not even that great, is a Dataview inline query that you add to each task manually, like

`=task_date - date(today)` days left

task_date is just for example, I couldn’t figure out how to actually fetch the task due date from the task that the query is placed after

[Shajirr]

Here:

Easiest way to implement "days since" or "days till" counters?

The solution also depends if this is an isolated need or if it’s a more structured request with implications in the way you compose your notes. Let’s try the second case (a more ‘structured’ way). Let’s say you have a note for your “December vacations” and other for your friend “John birthday”. In these notes you need to create a field with the date. For dataview plugin you can create this field in two ways: in yaml frontmatter with the syntax key: value; or an inline-field with the syntax ke…

is an example of taking a date from an inline field in a note, but I didn’t find how to apply this for each task in a task list

[Shajirr]

Here is another example from 2021 of pretty much exactly what I wanted to do, but it was never implemented in Tasks plugin:

Days Remaining Until Due Date · obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks ·...