Hi,
I just found that using the Minimal theme I was able to decorate my task into so much more than just tasks, but it posed a little problem in getting an overview of which tasks where left to be done across files. I thought about asking in the Help category, but I wanted to do some research first. This post is that research and result of this.
My starting point was that I wanted to get a list of tasks, and filter out those not started and/or incomplete. I didn’t want to see all which were either completed already or just decorated for other purposes.
My two main tools to achieve this result was a simple dataview task query, and the output from $=dv.span(dv.current().file.lists (where you could drop the file.lists part to get all information). I then made a sample file, and extended it until I found the solution. This file is shown below:
---
Tags: uniqueTag
---
Some sample tasks of the various types:
- [x] completed task
- [/] incomplete task
- [ ] not started
- [-] cancelled task
- [u] It's going up
- [d] ... or down
Here are my various attempts at getting
a list of those tasks.
## All tasks
```dataview
task from #uniqueTag
```
## Uncompleted tasks?
```dataview
task from #uniqueTag
where !completed
```
Includes all the extra tasks, as well.
## text contains "k"?
```dataview
task from #uniqueTag
where !completed
and contains(text, "k")
```
No go, as it only checked the actual text of the task
## Using status
```dataview
task from #uniqueTag
where status = " " or status = "/"
```
By looking into the _All info_ shown below,
I found that the actual text between the brackets
was stored in the `status` field, and then I can
combine whichever set of these that I wanted.
# All info
`$=dv.span(dv.current().file.lists)`
Hopefully this post/approach could help other figure out how to manipulate a task list according to their specific needs, based on available info from dv.current().
Regards,
Holroy