Dinamic filters as dataview

[Maurbj]

Hi,

I would like to create templates that includes view on tasks on the notes that are linked to this note. Right now I have to manually update the filter of path includes .

I can crerate a unique tag for all this files but I don't want to end with a bunch of tags.

I can do it with Dataview plugin but the when i check a task from this view it does not put the compeltion date.

The ideal is to have some commands as dataview as this.file.inlinks or the posibility to check in a dataview query with the completion dates.

[schemar]

Hey @Maurbj,

Thank you for the idea! First, to manage expectations: tasks will not become a dataview clone. Tasks will stay simple on purpose.

Let me recap to make sure I understand you correctly:
You would like to have a new query filter to get all tasks from all files that link to the current file where the query filter is in. Anywhere in that file.

With the way Tasks works currently, this would be difficult. We would need to track all links from the file where the task is contained. We don’t really analyze the whole file at the moment. We go through it once (line by line), remembering the last heading, for example, but we don’t have more context.

While I like the idea and I think it would be a cool feature for task management, I don’t think that is something that could be added to the Tasks plugin anytime soon.

Could you maybe elaborate a little more on your workflow? Maybe we can find another solution together 😄

[Maurbj]

Hi @schemar, thanks for your quick answer!

So what I have in my workflow is a note for each project. In this note I have a section where I make daily annotations about the project, some of this annotations are tasks. At the beginning of the note I recover all the dispersed tasks to get a view.

For some larger projects I would like to divide them in pieces with Milestones notes. This Milestones notes have the same approach as the project note, they are connected with links to the project note. What I wish is to have in my project note a view with all tasks from the Milestones in automatic with just linking.

I could manage independently the milestones notes but in some cases the activities overlaps, it will helpful to have an overall view. Hope I made myself clear.

[schemar]

What you could do right now is have a directory <projectname> per project which includes the milestones and query with path includes <projectname>.

Would that work?