(originally posted in the Discord #plugins-advanced channel )
A cool trick
Want to list a bunch of linked notes in a kanban board (courtesy of @mgmeyers )? If you’re like me, the thought of typing out a hundred linked pages will leave you out of breath and make your thumbs ache.
Well, good news for your lungs and thumbs: create giant linked lists of notes in seconds with the help of @blacksmithgu ’s Dataview and SilentVoid’s Templater !
Set up a Templater template using the “Paste clipboard into list of wikilinks” template found here: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater/discussions/173
Use the following Dataview query to generate a list of notes. Edit the WHERE line to search for whatever you want:
LIST
WHERE contains(file.name, "ᐤ△")
SORT file.name asc
Switch to preview. Select the list, then copy it to your clipboard.
Open the Kanban board as a markdown note:
Switch to your kanban board.
Click the board’s ⫶ menu.
Click “Open as Markdown” to get a markdown view of the kanban board.
Under whatever heading you’d like, insert the template you created in (1).
The result will be a list of the notes you generated via the Dataview query above, formatted perfectly for your kanban list.
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An even simpler option—you don’t actually need Dataview or Templater.
Obsidian’s core search includes a Copy Search Results button:
Enter a query and tap that button, then use the appropriate link style and a - list prefix:
Copy the results, then follow step 4 above. Finally, paste the copied search results.
If you need help building complex search queries, try the Vantage plugin .
The dataview+templater workflow described above may still be handy if you need to search for something more complex than core search parameters can do.
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thanks for the hacks, they are helpful.
do you know why Kanban can’t work with embedded dataview queries, and if this limitation will ever be overcome?
am I asking too much?
The functionality just hasn’t been built out. It is non-trivial, but there is a feature request (or several) for it in the Kanban GitHub repo.
e.g.,
opened 08:04PM - 12 May 21 UTC
enhancement
planned
difficult
As discussed here: https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/8402862389287… 97736/841748907273093120
It would be pretty neat to live-import cards matching a certain search or dataview query.
A couple of use cases:
- A kanban for writing. Lists might be drafts, editing, scheduled, published. An "inbox" list might grab items from across the vault so that they can be easily dragged into other lists.
- A kanban for project management. Same as above—an inbox list would make sure you catch every new project note you create.
I recognize that this is probably non-trivial, though—namely because the plugin would need to recognize that a search-generated card needs to be converted to a "real" card once it's dragged from the search to another list.
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