#28

Please forgive my ignorance, but how does one go about downloading and installing plugins from github?

Any help would be appreciated
Thx

#29

You can install it from the Community Plugins page.

Here’s how, if you don’t yet know

  1. open settings
  2. select image, browse and install “Vantage - Advanced search builder”
  3. scroll down and activate the plugin
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  4. use the magnifying glass button on the ribbon left of screen to create your search image
#30

Thanks @dryice . I didn’t realize it was on the community page. I do know how to do that. I thought I needed to get it from Github.

#31

Hi- first time posting on this forum and new user so please be gentle :slight_smile:

Absolutely blown away with the power of Obsidian, especially when I found this plugin last night. It’s really helping me learn how to construct my own queries. Thank you so much!

However, I’m stuck…

I’m trying to pull through all unchecked todos from my daily notes, and like @dcb, I’m trying to avoid seeing todos scheduled for current day / future. I wondered if I could use the “yesterday” natural language to always pull through todos up to and including yesterday, rather than today, but it doesn’t look like that works.

Anyone found any way to do this that doesn’t involve entering in a “formal” date manually each day to specify the end of a date range?

Edited to add - my dailies file name format is YYYY-MM-DD. I note that the natural date format looks for DD-MM-YYYY. I’ve tried various combos such as searching by filename using * and also using the date range option:

Using file name search worked as requested in my query below (to find all unchecked todos in March), but the date range option appears to look for files in the DD-MM-YYYY format so returned no results in my case. (Just playing around with searching for dates; doesn’t tackle my “yesterday” request - but fun trying things out!)

file:("2021-03") path:(Dailies)  ((/- \[ \].*.*/))

file:(01-03-2021 OR 02-03-2021 OR 03-03-2021 OR 04-03-2021 OR 05-03-2021 OR 06-03-2021 OR 07-03-2021 OR 08-03-2021 OR 09-03-2021 OR 10-03-2021 OR 11-03-2021 OR 12-03-2021 OR 13-03-2021 OR 14-03-2021 OR 15-03-2021 OR 16-03-2021 OR 17-03-2021 OR 18-03-2021 OR 19-03-2021 OR 20-03-2021 OR 21-03-2021 OR 22-03-2021 OR 23-03-2021 OR 24-03-2021 OR 25-03-2021)  ((/- \[ \].*.*/))

So does this mean that if I use the date range option, it will never do as I want unless I change the format of my file names?

Many thanks

#32

Apologies for the delayed response. I think you can do this with the following:

(file:(2021) -file:(202103)) (line:(/- \[ \].*.*/))

In other words, create an AND group with the first set of parentheses, then add the terms you want to search for and the ones you want to include within those.

So the above finds all files with 2021 in their names, but subtracts all files with filenames including 202103 (removing March from the query).

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#33

If I’m understanding you, I think you’re looking to do something like “Find all incomplete tasks from the beginning of time up until yesterday.”

Probably the easiest way of doing that would be to pick a date arbitrarily in the past—your birthday, maybe? :tada:—for the “From” field and then write yesterday as the “To” field.

The plugin should translate that into your own date format.

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#34

Thank you very much - I’ll give these a try!

#35

You star! That works a dream! I did have to enter in my FROM date in the format of my daily notes ie YYYY-MM-DD for it to create fie:(2021-03-01 OR etc). If I entered in natural language 1st March 21 it looked for file:(01-03-2021 etc which meant it clearly didn’t find it. Logical of course!

Thank you so much - that is fabulous!

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#36

In order to not show the long search string, I’m adding in the …

.internal-query-header-title {
display: none;
}

…you advised another user in an earlier conversation. But, I’m not sure where to put this. If I put it under the ```query line above everything else, it doesn’t seem to work… I’m not a programmer!

#37

That is a bit of CSS. You can add it to your vault at Preferences → Appearance. Click the folder icon next to the Snippets section. There, create a file called “embed search.css”, and paste the code in. Refresh the Snippets section and enable the new snippet.

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#38

Thank you so much - that works a treat!

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#39

Hi @ryanjamurphy,

has there been any movement on this? I am also trying to search for tasks within a date range, as in ‘the next seven days’, so that all tasks that have a date link will show up in the search.

would this be possible?

Thanks!

#40

Sorry, no progress to report. A workaround might be to generate the date search with Vantage then paste it into a block: operator.

#41

Thanks for the quick reply!

I don’t understand what you mean…how do I do a date search for ‘next week’ without manually putting in each date?

#42

Vantage provides a date search feature already. It’s the second part of the Vantage interface. You enter two natural language dates and it returns the search query you’d use to search the corresponding daily notes.

#43

Oh yeah, I get that - but what if I don’t want to search daily note pages?

it might be a project page with a task such as this:

  • [ ] do the thing [[2021-10-03]]

My understanding is that the date range search does not catch that task as it’snot on a daily notes page. Maybe I’ve got that wrong?

#44

Yeah, that’s why you’d need the workaround I was suggesting. If you searched for line:([[2020-09-28]] OR [[2020-09-29]] OR [[2020-09-30]]), it would pick up on a task linked to one of those dates. So you can generate that OR date-string with Vantage then just switch file: with line:.

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#45

yes, that’s what I was thinking - but then I’d have to a) do this every week, and b) manually enter each date. both of which seem a bit cumbersome.

I’ll hunt around if there is a way to automate this…

#46

Honestly, if it’s going in a daily note or similar template, a dataview query will probably work well for you.

I use the following in an Inbox note I check regularly. It picks up all overdue tasks. It should be trivial to edit it to look ahead instead, but let me know if you need help!

Overdue tasks

dv.taskList(dv.pages('"Calendar"')
    .where(p => p.file.day && p.file.day <= (luxon.DateTime.now().minus({days: 1})))
	.sort(b => b.file.day)
    .file.tasks
    .where(t => !t.completed), true)
#47

I was hoping for a saved search, so that I can drag and drop tasks from the search pane into my weekly note (this means I don’t have to have the weekly note in Preview where I can’t work with it).

It’s looking ahead that I am trying to do - ‘find all tasks for the next week’ :slight_smile: