Hello. Gonna try to describe this as best I can
My original intention
Basically I’ve got this page called “Did today” that I link to within my daily notes like so:
[[Did today]]: (And here I write a summary of what I did that day)
I often write the rest of the page, writing down my thoughts and feelings throughout the day, then at the end of the day I go back and add the above to the top to summarize what I did that day, or write down an anecdote. Anything I want to remember, which I started doing with the intention of going into the backlinks to retrieve the information all in one place and be able to copy it down into a physical notebook which I’m currently running from but do intend to continue writing in :')
Except, while the backlinks menu is fine and I can query the backlinks to show with context as a list if I want to (I made it work at one point I think, it wasn’t too hard), with a list like that it’s kinda hard to check at a glance whether I missed any days (which I am wont to do)
What I’m trying to do
I’d like to have Dataview display a calendar view inside the “Did today” page that only shows dots for the notes that link to it, that way I can quickly look at it and see if any days are missing a dot, preferably without having to add the date into the metadata of the notes (I am using the note title as the date)
Things I have tried
Currently I have only managed to make the calendar view display with ALL notes that have a date as their file name. Here is the code I’m using:
```dataview
CALENDAR date(file.name, "dd-MM-yyyy")
WHERE file.name
CALENDAR date(file.name, "dd-MM-yyyy")
WHERE file.inlinks
Either one works, which kind of worries me because I don't understand why they work in the first place (I also had a similar issue with a table I tried making where for some reason "FROM [[]]" gave me the file inlinks without me asking it to? Which I don't understand the reason for). And the issue is, whichever one I use, as I said, it shows me ANY page that has a title that goes dd-MM-yyyy
I've tried a bunch of different ways of formulating it, but they either give the same result as this, or they display an empty calendar, or they don't display anything at all. Occasionally I get an error message about formatting (this has happened anytime I tried to use 'FROM' in this context for instance)
I just. I'm at a loss as to how the calendar view works in this regard. It doesn't help that nobody really seems to be attempting to use it much - I've found very little help with this both on the Dataview info website and in these forums. I can't tell if I'm missing something