Filter tasks by all applicable headings

[stormriderstudios]

I altered one of my templates today and came across an issue - though more a feature request since the program is acting as documented.

# Primary
- [ ] Task 1
## Secondary
- [ ] Task 2
### Tertiary
- [ ] Task 3
## An other heading
- [ ] Task 4
### A deeper heading
- [ ] Task 5

So in the above example I could expect heading includes primary to fetch ALL of the tasks, while heading includes secondary should fetch tasks 2 and 3. I hope that explains the logic but if not please let me know and I'll give more scenarios :)

Also as a possible suggestion, could a chain of headings be used? So perhaps heading includes ##Secondary###Tertiary if you have multiple sub-headings with the same name?

[schemar]

Hey, there. Thank you for the idea. I moved it to the „ideas“ section.

[ghelton]

Great idea! This would be super helpful, I honestly assumed it worked this way out of the box.

[Cito]

Same for me. I mostly avoid filtering by heading because it breaks as soon as I introduce subheadings and move tasks there.

However, I suggest providing both variants, because the current one may also be sometimes useful. Maybe like this, which would be backward compatible:

• "heading includes seconday" would only fetch task 2
• "any heading includes secondary" would fetch tasks 2 and 3

[claremacrae]

Thank you for the suggestion.

[claremacrae]

Requested again in #1167.

[evanleck]

Big plus one for me. I have something like the following:

## Project name

### Follow up
- [ ] Task

And want to be able to query all tasks under the "Project name" heading, since "Follow up" is duplicated across many projects.

Thanks for considering!

[claremacrae]

@evanleck Are your projects each in different notes? If so, you could search by filename.

[evanleck]

@claremacrae yeah, that's how I'm working around it now but the tasks and notes for these projects are spread across daily notes, so I have to add whichever daily notes were for days when I had conversations about each project. Along similar lines, it'd be cool to be able to say "show me tasks under headings with tags X, Y, and Z" but using this same logic outlined at the start of this discussion.

[claremacrae]

I guess the other workaround would be to call the heading Project name: Follow up.

[claremacrae]

This is a precursor to:

• Display full title hierarchy in backlinks #1305