How to combine START and DUE query???

[702573N]

I would like to get all tasks "due today" or "starts today". But it seems it's impossible. Can someone help?

This doesn't work:

```tasks
not done
due today
starts today

It seems that operators like

OR
||

or

AND
&&

doesn't exist.

[therden]

Tasks does not presently support an OR operator -- consequently, its query results include only those tasks that satisfy all conditions.

Could you make do with consecutive queries, as in the following?

```tasks
not done
due today
```
```tasks
not done
starts today
```

[marcinsmialek]

Would it be hard to implement that it takes a set of queries and combines their results with deduplication?
Although it may be limiting a bit, it should be simpler than adding operators.

Something like this:

```tasks
not done
due today

not done
starts today
```

My personal case would be the following:

```tasks
not done
starts before tomorrow
scheduled before tomorrow

not done
starts before tomorrow
due before tomorrow
```

[therden]

Hello @marcinsmialek. I believe that what you're asking for is already possible.

Assuming that you actually have tasks which match all of these conditions, have you tried the following?

```tasks
not done
starts before tomorrow
scheduled before tomorrow
due before tomorrow
```

[marcinsmialek]

Thanks for reply, @therden
I wanted scheduled OR due
AND conditions work perfectly fine. My current workaround is similar to one you posted earlier, it just doesn't look concise. Hiding tasks count helps a bit.

[therden]

You're welcome @marcinsmialek. I'm sorry that I didn't realize that you were asking about support for OR queries.

Tasks does not support those now, and I don't know when or even whether it might do so in future.

I'm afraid that I can't answer your question about how hard it would be to implement, as I am not a developer.

[schemar]

Tasks doesn't currently have an option to OR query filters. However, if I understand you correctly @marcinsmialek, your main issue is duplicate tasks that show in both lists. To prevent this, you could use the following queries:

```tasks
not done
starts before tomorrow
due before tomorrow
no scheduled date
```
```tasks
not done
starts before tomorrow
scheduled before tomorrow
```

In this setup, you wouldn't get any scheduled tasks in the due block. This could be an issue if you have tasks that are scheduled after they are due. Then you would only see the tasks once they are scheduled and not already when they are due. However, in practice this shouldn't happen? I think? Or would even be a purposeful schedule to after it's due? I don't think this would be an actual issue in my setup.

Does this help? Or inspire a better solution?

[702573N]

I would like to do that, but at the moment such a query (starts today) returns all possible tasks, just not the ones that are needed. - Tasks without start - Tasks with start - Tasks with any start Am 12. Nov. 2021, 01:04 +0100 schrieb therden ***@***.***>:

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[schemar]

Please note that filtering by start date will include tasks that don't have a start date. See also here: https://schemar.github.io/obsidian-tasks/queries/filters/#start-date

[702573N]

This doesn't make sense. When I filter all tasks starting today, I can't get all tasks without start date. Because of that, your own solution doesn't work. I need to get all I filtered and not anything else. Am 12. Nov. 2021, 09:35 +0100 schrieb Martin Schenck ***@***.***>:

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[702573N]

This logic lacks. A separate query like 'no start date' to get tasks you can't work on is necessary. This way you can hide tasks without start date on query starts. Am 12. Nov. 2021, 10:44 +0100 schrieb tmartschinke ***@***.***>:

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This doesn't make sense. When I filter all tasks starting today, I can't get all tasks without start date. Because of that, your own solution doesn't work. I need to get all I filtered and not anything else. Am 12. Nov. 2021, 09:35 +0100 schrieb Martin Schenck ***@***.***>: > Please note that filtering by start date will include tasks that don't have a start date. See also here: https://schemar.github.io/obsidian-tasks/queries/filters/#start-date—You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[claremacrae]

The boolean operators feature, to combine queries, was released in Tasks 1.9.0.
See the Documentation.

[therden]

This is a terrific enhancement -- thank you Clare!