Wildcards in tasks?

[klxsnd]

New to Obsidian, New to Tasks. Search has not turned up an answer, so here goes...
I have added a 'due today' section to my daily note template, the intention for which is to show notes due on that day. Currently I am using due today which isn't quite the solution. Feels like it needs some sort version of the following very-pseudo code:

due on task.due regex matches self.note.filename

How does one achieve this? Thx.

[claremacrae]

New to Obsidian, New to Tasks.

Welcome!

Search has not turned up an answer, so here goes...

Thanks for looking - I appreciate it.

General advice

Make sure you use the explain instruction to double-check your queries when setting them up.

See Explaining Queries.

General info: Tasks and Daily notes

I have added a 'due today' section to my daily note template, the intention for which is to show notes due on that day.

Searching the docs for daily leads to here:

https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Advanced/Daily+Agenda

It's not the clearest of our docs pages, but it does show the syntax for a few different template plugins, although not Templater.

Fundamentally, you need to get your templating program to detect the date in the filename and including it in the queries in your daily note, when the template is applied.

To generate text like:

due on 2024-09-05

Option: Placeholders: Using the filename directly in Tasks

If your daily notes are named exactly in YYYY-MM-DD with no other text, you use Tasks' "Placeholders" facility to use the filename inside your query:

due on {{query.file.filenameWithoutExtension}}

For example, if my note is called 2024-09-05.md, then this query:

```tasks
due on {{query.file.filenameWithoutExtension}}
explain
```

Includes this output:

Explanation of this Tasks code block query:

  due on {{query.file.filenameWithoutExtension}} =>
  due on 2024-09-05 =>
    due date is on 2024-09-05 (Thursday 5th September 2024)

Option: Get your own templating engine to your daily note file names

How does one achieve this? Thx.

It really depends on which templating plugin you are using.

Try out the info in the Daily Agenda page above.

If using Templater, the examples on this page of its docs should get you started:

https://silentvoid13.github.io/Templater/

Aside: Regular expression searches (not for dates)

Currently I am using due today which isn't quite the solution. Feels like it needs some sort version of the following very-pseudo code:

due on task.due regex matches self.note.filename

As an aside, we do have regular expression searchings, but only for text fields, not for dates:

https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Queries/Regular+Expressions

[klxsnd]

I will dig into that, thanks!!

[klxsnd]

btw, love and grateful for regex support. I have been a regex junkie since college, going on #&@^#$ years!!