Query due $date-is-file-path

[abuggin]

I'm using the default daily journal in obsidian:

for every day a file like 2022-10-05 is created in a configurable folder, for example vault-root/journals/2022-10-05.

I'd like in each day to be able to query the tasks due that day.
Help?

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Naively I tried

due today

but it will show today's tasks even for yesterday's file etc.

[claremacrae]

Hello @abuggin,

Currently there is no built-in way feature in Tasks to extract the date from the file name.

As you have found, today is a short-cut for the current date, so does not help.

The way that people solve this is to create a template system for Obsidian to use when creating the daily note.

We have some incomplete notes on ways to do this here:

https://obsidian-tasks-group.github.io/obsidian-tasks/advanced/daily-agenda/

I hope they help you get started.

Below I show my set-up, in case it gives you some ideas for how you would like to arrange yours.

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Personally I use:

1 The Core Daily notes plugin

With these settings:

The truncated text is:

Date format: YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD dddd
Template location: _templates/Daily Log Templates/L - Daily Log

Note the dddd at the end of the date format. Personally I find it useful to have the day of the week in the file name, and after a year or so of daily notes, I like having a year folder (YYYY) and then a month folder (MM).

2 The Calendar plugin

With these settings:

3 The Templater plugin

With these settings:

4 A sample template

My template has become quite complicated over time, and very specific to my setup.

So below is an idea for a more general example daily note. Again, this is Templater plugin syntax.

Note how I create variables at the start for dates I might use - yesterday, today etc. This helps make the rest of the template a lot easier to write and read.

# <% tp.file.title %>  
<%*  
  let yesterday = tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd", -1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD dddd")  
  let today     = tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD",       0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD")  
  let tomorrow  = tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",  1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD dddd")  
%>  
<< [[<% yesterday %>]] | [[<% tomorrow %>]]>>  

## Due Today

```tasks
not done
due <% today %>
```

## Overdue

```tasks
not done
due before <% today %>
```

## Done Today

```tasks
done
done <% today %>
```

In use

The Calendar plugin shows a dot against each day that has a daily note already created.

Every week or two, I click another week or two of dates, to create another batch of notes.

[lenalebt]

Hey!
I have a use-case that is similar to this one, but not exactly. I already am using the above template-based approach in some cases, where it really helps, but this is rather for some "task overview for specific topics" where the template-based approach does not really get me where I want to get.

• I'm using "Obsidian-Tasks", "Periodic Notes", and "Rollover Daily Todos".
• I can easily query "all but the periodic notes" for tasks, excluding the periodic todos from most queries, by path does not include Periodic Notes
• I'm rolling over unfinished daily Todos, and keep them in old Daily notes
• I cannot exclude all but the daily notes from today for searching in Obsidian-Tasks - which is what I'm interested in in some cases

I could of course delete unfinished todos from daily notes of passed days - but I'd like to avoid that for now.

It would be helpful if I could do something like path does not include $today, with $today being YYYY-MM-DD-formatted. Or path does not include <%+ tp.date.now() %>, using syntax from templater. Or basically any other way to do it. Maybe it's already possible, and I just don't have a good idea here?

[claremacrae]

Hi @lenalebt Happy to try and help, but not here. Please could you start a new Q&A Discussion?

I don’t have time to be creating sample data, so in addition to the description, please can you give me some example file names with their directory names and content, show me the queries that you are using already, and make it clear which tasks you want included or excluded from your results.

thanks in advance.