Showing incomplete tasks using Dataview in Minimal theme

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What I’m trying to do

I use Kepano’s minimal theme in my Obsidian and use dataview to see all pending tasks from my daily journals.

The following code helps me do that.

TASK
FROM "journal/daily"
WHERE !completed AND regexmatch("^2025", file.name)
GROUP BY file.link
SORT rows.file.ctime DESC
LIMIT 10

This gives me the latest tasks that are not completed yet.

The minimal think allows checklist of various kinds. For instance, I can use these and more:

- [ ]	to-do
- [/]	incomplete
- [x]	done
- [-]	canceled
- [>]	forwarded
...

I particularly like [-] version that lets me see a planned task that is not finished but is off the list. It should not popup up when I use my dataview query to see tasks to do which is not the same as tasks remaining.

There are tasks that are remaining but are no longer relevant. Or I at times, wish to use other completed types of checklist as shown in the above examples to show importance of task or celebrate when it is done using a Star instead of regular checkmark.

Is there anyway, I can only consider [ ] as empty and all others as completed?

Things I have tried

I don’t know how to address this issue. So, I have not tried many things.

TIA.

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In your WHERE command, change !completed to !checked.

(Info about implicit fields for tasks: Metadata on Tasks and Lists - Dataview)

You can also filter by status. E.g.,

WHERE (status = ">" OR status = "/") AND regexmatch("^2025", file.name)

… to see your tasks that are marked incomplete or forwarded.

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Oh! Thank you so much. !checked solves it. Bless you.

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Using checked do indeed check whether you’re using any custom status other than the space characters. However, I’m using a similar scheme, and then all of these indicate a task not being completed; [ ], [/], [\] (and if feeling frisky also [¿], [¡], [+]). And I count the following as completed: [x], [>], [<], [-].

To properly check for these I use variations over the theme of:

WHERE contains(list(" ", "/", "\", "¿", "¡", "+"), status)

Or either !contains(...) or similar lists for the completed variants.