I need help configuring QuickAdd to capture tasks into a Master Task List, organized by hashtags like #Today, #ThisWeek, #NextWeek, #ThisMonth, #Q1, #Q2, #Q3, and #Q4. Can anyone help me on that?
Can you say more?
What do you mean by automatically? And what does this have to do with Dataview?
I’m actually new to Obsidian.
What I’m trying to do is to write a value at a particular section for example let’s say Q1 and it is captured into a master task list as a duplicate.
So you’re adding something via QuickAdd. You are the one adding the hashtag? And the automatic part would make a duplicate somewhere based on the hashtag, and put it under a heading that matches the hashtag?
If you show an example of the kind of values you are entering, it might help someone suggest a workflow. Try to give as much detail as you can.
One of the first keys to automating something is writing out the manual steps in a clear and repeatable way.
(I’ll remove the Dataview tag from your post. This doesn’t seem related to Dataview.)
To explain better @rigmarole I want the listed task in the master list to show in the section #Q1 when I add it to a task but it is not currently working for others like #Q1 and others
I’m trying to ensure the listed tasks I added in the Master List are also showing in the section for example when I add #Q2 it should show there.
Do you understand the issue now? @rigmarole
By default QuickAdd is a plugin to help you add text to a note at one place. It doesn’t by itself duplicate stuff elsewhere.
If you add a task to a master list, or into your daily notes (like many do), you could use a query to showcase these tasks elsewhere. If that is what you’re looking for, you would need to look into either using the tasks plugin, or doing a TASK query with the dataview plugin. Either of these would allow for you to define your tasks in notes within your vault somewhere, and they could sort and filter and display these tasks according to your criteria (like tasks for this quarter).
Thanks a lot @holroy.
Can you give me a run through process of how I can use the TASK query with the dataview plugin to duplicate the tasks. And I’ll like to ask if it’s possible for it to display on the same Master Task List note?
If you install the Dataview plugin, and enable it, you could put the following either in the same master task list note, or in another note:
```dataview
TASK
WHERE !completed AND contains(tags, "#Q2")
```
And it should show you all not completed tasks which are tagged with the #Q2 tag. Similar queries could be built using date ranges, but it would look slightly different.
This is really helpful @holroy, I really appreciate your help.
But I would like to ask how I can go about the unscheduled or also list the tasks that have no tags?
If the unscheduled have no tags, you could possibly try with:
```dataview
TASK WHERE length(tags) = 0
```
Thanks a lot @holroy, final question can I also use data view to list out task that are supposed to be carried out this week, this month, Q1 etc., without tags?
If yes, how?
Thanks.
It all depends on how you’ve written your task, and what distinguishes any task from another task. Kind of hard to cover all the bases, but in the link below you’ll see the documentation for how to build queries in Dataview. This should give you a starting point, and allow to play around a little and see what you can query.
https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/queries/structure/
It shouldn’t be too hard to filter out any of those tasks, given that there is something unique in your tasks to target in the WHERE clause.
Thanks a lot @holroy.
I have gone through it but I’m still facing issues in the Q1 aspect because I want it to be the Q1 section of the next year if the current year has passed.
@holroy thanks a lot for yesterday.
I’m still having issues with the synchronization on my iPhone. The sections like Master task list #Today, #Daily3, etc., aren’t syncing properly. Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this?
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