Hello,
I wanted to share a datawiew snippet that has helped me a lot. With this snippet placed in a note, I am able to embed automatically the paragraphs from other notes that link to this note.
My current use case is the following.
I use daily notes. I store them as follows:
/Diary/YYYY/Notes/YYYY-MM-DD.md
During the day, if I do something regarding some project, or there is some random thing I want to write it down regarding some project, I add it to the daily note as follows:
- [[Link to project 1]]
- Some thing regarding that project
- Subpoint
- Subpoint
- Another thing regarding the project
- [[Link to project 2]]
- Some thing about project 2
- Some thing extra about project 2
In my Vault, I have a folder for projects, as follows:
.
├── Diary
│ └── 2025
│ └── Notes
│ ├── 2025-05-07.md
│ └── 2025-05-08.md
└── Projects
├── P001-My Project 1
│ ├── My Project 1.md
│ └── Notes
│ ├── Specific note related with project 1.md
│ └── Another note specific of project 1.md
└── P002-My Project 2
├── My Project 2.md
└── Notes
├── Specific note related with project 2.md
└── Another note specific of project 2.md
The main note of a project is the note with the actual name of the project. For example: “My Project 1.md”
Unrelated: The subfolder “Notes” of the Project is where I place some notes that are specific for that project and that have some entity.
In each project, the main note acts as an index. For example, it has a description of the project, the index of Tasks, and the “LogBook” of this project. In this section “LogBook” is where I use the snippet. What I want is to be able to read all the specific parts of the daily notes that I have written regarding that project. In descing order. In addition, if the paragraph is under another bullet point, it will show the full list of ancestors.
Example
Dataview Snippet
// Actual Note (complete relative path and name)
const currentFilePath = dv.current().file.path.replace('.md', '');
const currentFileName = dv.current().file.name;
// Search in folders with format: Diary/####/Notes
const notes = dv.pages('"Diary"').filter(n => /^Diary\/\d{4}\/Notes/.test(n.file.path)).sort(n => n.file.name, 'desc');
// Obtain specific context of bullet points (only parents and children of link)
async function getContexts(file, possibleLinks) {
const content = await dv.io.load(file.path);
if (!content) return [];
const lines = content.split("\n");
const contexts = [];
for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
const line = lines[i];
const hasLink = possibleLinks.some(link => line.includes(`[[${link}]]`) || line.includes(`[[${link}|`));
if (hasLink) {
if (/^\s*[-*+]\s/.test(line)) {
let currentIndent = line.match(/^\s*/)[0].length;
// Capture only previous parents
const parents = [];
let indentTracker = currentIndent;
for (let j = i - 1; j >= 0; j--) {
const parentLine = lines[j];
const parentIndent = parentLine.match(/^\s*/)[0].length;
if (/^\s*[-*+]\s/.test(parentLine) && parentIndent < indentTracker) {
parents.unshift(parentLine);
indentTracker = parentIndent;
}
if (parentIndent === 0) break;
}
// Capture current bullet and children
const descendants = [line];
const baseIndent = currentIndent;
for (let j = i + 1; j < lines.length; j++) {
const childLine = lines[j];
const childIndent = childLine.match(/^\s*/)[0].length;
if (/^\s*[-*+]\s/.test(childLine)) {
if (childIndent > baseIndent) {
descendants.push(childLine);
} else if (childIndent <= baseIndent) {
break;
}
} else {
break;
}
}
contexts.push([...parents, ...descendants].join("\n"));
} else if (line.trim() !== "") {
let para = [line];
let j = i - 1;
while (j >= 0 && lines[j].trim() !== "") para.unshift(lines[j--]);
j = i + 1;
while (j < lines.length && lines[j].trim() !== "") para.push(lines[j++]);
contexts.push(para.join("\n"));
}
}
}
return contexts;
}
// Possible link
const possibleLinks = [currentFileName, currentFilePath];
// Embed notes
const embeds = [];
for (let note of notes) {
const contexts = await getContexts(note.file, possibleLinks);
contexts.forEach(context => {
embeds.push(`[[${note.file.path}|${note.file.name}]]\n> ${context.replace(/\n/g, "\n> ")}`);
});
}
// Show results
dv.paragraph(embeds.length ? embeds.join('\n\n') : "_There are 0 references._");
… one of the moderators will help and rename this for you.