Be able to reference links to THIS page in filter

[tilmanbergt]

Hi, one thing I currently struggle with around tasks is that I found no flexible way to look for tasks that are linking to this page (this page being the page the task query is on). I always have to search to the title of the page in the description -> if the title changes it breaks the query, If I have a template I have to manually update it in new pages as well etc.
So in dataview you can reference to the current page just by [[]] and get all pages that link the current page, but on a task level I have found to way to do it.
Some info on why this is important for my workflow: I note down tasks usually where they arise: either in a meeting note, a daily note or on a project note. But I also like to link every task to a project or person and then when looking at the note for the person or project I would like to immediately see als tasks that relate to this person or project. for these purposes I currently use something like this
description includes [[Jan
where Jan is the title of the page linked to and where the query is located.
what I instead would like to have is
description includes [[]]
or some similar generic syntax.

Perhaps already some way to do it that I missed, but if not, this would be a highly desireable feature.
Thanks for considering this.

[claremacrae]

Sure, so long as you don't mind enabling the dataview plugin too...

There is a nice property that dataview can write out tasks blocks that are then processed by tasks.

This one does what you are asking for:

```dataviewjs

const query = `
not done
description includes [[${dv.current().file.name}
`;

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

The mixture of different types of quotes is important, so I recommend copying and pasting the example and then modifying it.

[claremacrae]

On the last line, you can change tasks to text to get a sort-of debug printout of the query that is generated.

The nice thing about this is that dataview always uses the current file name, so this one is immune to needing to be updated when the file is renamed.

[tilmanbergt]

Hi Clare, great, thank you so much for the very fast and to the point support. This is exactly what I was looking for! Obviously it would be a little simpler to do it within the task query itself, but for me this is a great snippet I immediately included it in a couple of templates :-).

[claremacrae]

Fabulous. When you have time, please could you mark it as the answer? Thanks.

[AnnaKornfeldSimpson]

There isn't a "mark as answer" for ideas the way there is for help discussion category.

[claremacrae]

D’oh. Thanks Anna.