How to periodically review entire notes?

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I’m trying (for the second time) to move from Notion to Obsidian, but I am running into a wall.

I’m a big fan of spaced repetition. My entire workflow is based around it. Not just flash cards, but the entire notes.

I know there’s the Spaced Repetition plugin, and that works perfectly for flashcards, but I don’t like it for entire notes since you can’t manually set review frequency for notes, it’s entirely based on the algorithm.

It might be better if I explain my workflow in Notion. In Notion I have all of my notes in one database. In the database I have a date property for “Last Reviewed”, an integer property for “Review Frequency” and a formula property that’s dateAdd(prop("Last Reviewed"), prop("Review Frequency"), "days"). This works perfectly. Then I can have multiple views of the database where I filter one whether or not that date is in the past, sort by it or another date, further filter down on tag or subject, etc.

I cannot seem to find a good way to do this Obsidian. I was able to come up with a DataviewJS query that pulls the notes

dataview
TABLE without id file.link as Name, lastReviewedDate, reviewFrequency, nextReview
FROM "03 Knowledge Base"
FLATTEN lastReviewedDate + dur(reviewFrequency + " days") AS nextReview
WHERE (nextReview <= date(today) AND (nextReview) AND (review))
SORT nextReview

But I’m not a fan of the fact that what’s returned is static. Meaning I can’t further filter or sort it, without changing the query.

So now I have been looking into the Projects plugin, which seems to get me a pretty close to Notion database style view of all of my notes. BUT I cannot find a way to dynamically set the Next Review date property. I’ve looked into using Linter, QuickAdd Macros, MetaBind, but I’d prefer a way that rely on a convoluted, potentially fragile multi-plugin workflow.

Any suggestions on a more straightforward way to accomplish this?

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One way would be to copy the Obsidian URL (via the note menu or command palette) and paste it into a calendar or reminder app where you can set the date and repeat pattern.

Actually I’ve just realized this won’t suit because you want to filter by tag and subject. I was thinking that reminders apps support tags, but of course you don’t want to re-enter them. I’ll post this anyway in case it jobs some other idea.

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A quick means might be using the Obsidian Tasks plug-in by placing a recurring task in the note you want to review. There’s a feature now to delete each completed recurrence if you wouldn’t like the completed recurrences to pile up. Both Dataview and the Tasks plug-in could be used to filter if you wanted to aggregate your review tasks using a tag or something.

I personally use the Review plug-in for reviewing things that don’t have routine review session (e.g. projects during the weekly review). Unfortunately, that has just become a sort of band-aid solution to my real problem which is not having useful means of surfacing notes other than saying “this will probably be relevant in X days”, saying “I’ll just remind myself of this every so often until I don’t think it’s helpful anymore”, or attaching a task to the note.

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