Error When Rendering Documentatin's Daily Agenda ("Tasks query: do not understand due date")

[GregHilston]

Hey @schemar

Perhaps I'm not following what you and the OP discussed on discussion 146. I'm able to get the example queries in the documentation listed here, and its respective subtabs to work just fine.

What I'm unable to do is look at page a preview mode with this content (please note I'm tabbing this in to hopefully render better on Github:

  ## Tasks
  ### Overdue
  ```tasks
  not done
  due before {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}

Due today

not done
due on {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}

Due in the next two weeks

not done
due after {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}
due before {{date+14d:YYYY-MM-DD}}

No due date

not done
no due date

Done today

done on {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}

which comes from this page of the documentation. Every block, besides no due date (which makes sense as it does not leverage the date syntax), resolves to

Tasks query: do not understand due date

I've tried rendering the markdown in the calendar plugin's "daily note" as well, and have experienced the same result.

Do you, or anyone else, know how to allow the ability of the {{date:... syntax to work? My ultimate goal is to have a single tasks page that will render say:

• overdue tasks
• tasks due today
• tasks due this week

without having to update the date every day manually. Thanks for your time

[GregHilston]

---

I believe I answered my own question. The {{date}} syntax is only available in templates? As described here. If that's correct, the usage of the Calendar plugin to make a template semi-automatically makes sense.

I think my desired use case is slightly different and is probably not covered by automation, but let's pretend that's actual question now.

Is it possible to have a single file, say called tasks.md, where the date automatically updates itself.

---

Looks like I made this post too soon, as I believe I answered my own question. I'll let you mark this as answered if there is no better answer. I ended up reformatting the documentations' example as follows:

  # Tasks
  
  ## Overdue
  
  ```tasks
  not done
  due before tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")

Due today

not done
due on tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")

Due in the next two weeks

not done
due after tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")
due before tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", 14)

No due date

not done
no due date

Done today

done on tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")

and this seemed to work just fine. [I used this link as a reference](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/getting-something-like-date-with-templater/24165/5)

[claremacrae]

I’m glad you figured out a way, and I didn’t know you could use tp.date.. in task blocks, as I had thought that it too was provided by the Templater plugin.

What I do to get relative-to-today dates is described in these docs - in the Dates section

https://schemar.github.io/obsidian-tasks/queries/filters/#dates

They show how various examples of to refer to dates relative to today.

it’s very powerful.

So overdue is due before today, for example.

[GregHilston]

Okay that makes perfect sense. Sweet, so we have a way to shorthand write dates through the link you provided, and a way to dynamically get updated dates based on what I posted above?

I think we've covered all bases here!

[schemar]

@GregHilston you can have "dynamic" due/done dates with the Tasks plugin without any templating.
When you use a date filter like today (see the documentation that @claremacrae provided), then that will always be today. The same query will show other resulting tasks tomorrow than it does today. And it will automatically update at midnight if you leave Obsidian open.

today, next sunday, etc. are always relative to the current date. They are not replaced by the time you write the query.

So, in your case, you can do something like the following (without any additional plugins besides Tasks):

# Tasks

## Overdue

```tasks
not done
due before today
```

## Due today

```tasks
not done
due today
```

## Due in the next two weeks

```tasks
not done
due after today
due before in 14 days
```

## No due date

```tasks
not done
no due date
```

## Done today

```tasks
done today
```

[GregHilston]

@schemar Hey, thanks for replying. This worked exactly as you described, thanks so much. Marking as answered :)