I like to journal in my daily notes regarding different topics.
Sometimes I hit a boundary and a question arises in me.
I like to write down these question and assign them to a topic.
A daily note can have several questions assigned to different topics.
For example right now I am having quite a few questions regarding Obsidian but also around my Golf swing.
I’d like to have a separate Note that shows all open questions across all notes organized by category.
Therefor I’d see all Obsidian Questions and Golf questions grouped by their respective category.
A great additional feature but not a must - would be the possibility to check them off once they are answered.
Things I have tried
Until now I have tried writing this into my daily notes:
Question:: How do I improve my golf swing?
Topic:: Golf
Question:: How do I customize the Obsidian interface?
Topic:: Obsidian
And display it through this dataview command:
table without id Topic, Question
where Question
sort Topic asc
But it’s not really sorting well and attributing the questions to the topic.
You’re having an issue related to inline fields being connected to the page (not the block/paragraph), instead of a list/task which been debated before in this forum.
Your best bet is to change the markup to something like:
- [?] How do I improve my golf swing? [topic:: golf]
- [?] How do I customize the Obsidian interface? [topic:: obsidian]
Due to the usage of tasks we now link the topic field to that particular task, and can do queries like:
```dataview
TASK WHERE status = "?"
GROUP BY topic
```
```dataview
TASK
WHERE status = "?"
AND topic = "golf"
FLATTEN regexreplace(text, "\[topic:: [^]]*\]", "") as visual
```
Which should give you a list of questions grouped by their topic, and the other one only questions on golf where we’ve removed the topic from the text (if my regex is correct).
Given a proper template, i.e. Minimal, these tasks should show up with a question mark icon in front, and allow for backlinks to where you asked the question in the first place.