Tasks due “today” based on Daily Note, not current date?

[lucotto]

Things I have tried

Tasks due "today" based on Daily Note, not current date?

I’m trying to include a section in my daily notes for tasks due on or before the date of the note. I can do it easily enough like this for today: tasks not done due before 2022-07-01 However, I have to manually change the date to the day after the daily note to catch everything. Is there a way to say: “due before the date of this daily note + 1” That way, it can just be an automatic part of my template instead of me needing to tweak it each time. Thanks!

Still not working

What I’m trying to do

Tasks due "today" based on Daily Note, not current date?

I’m trying to include a section in my daily notes for tasks due on or before the date of the note. I can do it easily enough like this for today: tasks not done due before 2022-07-01 However, I have to manually change the date to the day after the daily note to catch everything. Is there a way to say: “due before the date of this daily note + 1” That way, it can just be an automatic part of my template instead of me needing to tweak it each time. Thanks!

Just like this topic says, let’s add a couple examples, these are my tasks:

Exam1 2023-02-20
Exam2 2023-02-21
Exam3 2023-02-22

whenever I open the 20th dailynote I want it to show the Exam1 (even if I open said dailynote on the 19th) and same for the 21st, 22nd etc
hence why I’m looking for a way to use Tasks’ date based on the dailynote where its called and not the actual absolute date

[holroy]

@lucotto

whenever I open the 20th dailynote I want it to show the Exam1 (even if I open said dailynote on the 19th) and same for the 21st, 22nd etc
hence why I’m looking for a way to use Tasks’ date based on the dailynote where its called and not the actual absolute date

I see two variants to get this to work like you intend to. Either use Templater to prepulate the dates based upon your file title (or wherever you get your date from), or using dataviewjs to build the tasks query based upon that date.

Using Templater

Daily note tasks due today that don't update the following day

I use the Templater plugin to create my daily note, with something like below, so the today gets translated to hardcoded value. This way, going back to a previous Daily Note, the value is hardcoded and therefore preserved at that point in time. modification date: <%+ tp.file.last_modified_date("dddd Do MMMM YYYY HH:mm:ss") %> <%* let yesterday = tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", -1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") let today = tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") let tomorr…

Here @egauthier presets some variables, which he then re-uses when building the queries later on in the template. This looks like a neat and easy way to handle this type of query.

Using dataviewjs

How to get tasks in current file - Tasks User Guide - Obsidian Publish

Using the same kind of syntax as in the link above, you can do something like:

```dataviewjs
const query = `
not done
due before ${ dv.current().file.day.toFormat("yyyy-MM-dd") }
# you can add any number of extra Tasks instructions, for example:
group by heading
`;

dv.paragraph('```tasks\n' + query + '\n```');
```

Where the ${ ... } is utilising a metadata field to get the date of the file depending on either the file title or the frontmatter field date.

[lucotto]

Both solution are incredibly smart and working, tysm! <3