Hi all,
Thank you to those active on the forums. I wouldn’t be able to use Obsidian, a clearly more developer oriented tool, without knowing I can ask you guys my stupid questions (given my technical illiteracy).
My question is: how do i use data view plugin to pull all files in my entire vault that were added between two dates? So say, between Feb 23, 2025 and Feb 26,2025?
(If data view is not the right tool for this job please let me know)
I have YAML frontmatter property for “created” that might be useful for this? But i do not think there is any way i created and imported 500+ attachments back in late February, so maybe this won’t help at all?
reason i am asking is to try to explain these last two massive spikes in “vault size” i have had recently:
```dataview
TABLE file.ctime AS created
WHERE file.ctime > date("2025-02-23") AND file.ctime < date("2025-02-26")
```
give this a shot!
I would add a sort line before the final three ticks
and you can add a limit
SORT file.ctime desc
Limit 100
ctime works much the same as cday for this.
I’m still looking for the list of dataview file properties that come default with files to use with Queries.
trap for young players with dataview custom properties ie the ones you add.
you have to put them in the very first line after the title of the file/note
starting with
three dashes
variablename: data
variablename2: data
ending with three dashes
where variable name can be pretty much what you like but ideally be consistent and pick the most obvious name possible - your future self will thank you.
Templates are also fun - for inserting custom property lists. Remember first line.
You can put properties in that fill themselves out
created: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}
I also find it helpful for my daily note or my notes in general to have my name in them to distinguish from a database I might get from elsewhere.
