Tasks Due This Week

[PeterBeckley]

My goal is to dynamically display all tasks in my vault, for the current week only, which have the global filter but are not part of any templates I've made. Right now, I can't find a way to do this with a tasks code block because "this week" and "next week" aren't ranges. However, using a dataviewjs codeblock it can be done. It's still a little weird because there isn't something like >= a day, just > a day for "after", as far as I can tell by using the "explain" option in the tasks code block (which is a fantastic tool, by the way!)

var now = moment()
var sow = now.clone().day(0);
var eow = now.clone().day(8);
const query = `
not done
NOT (path includes utils)
(due after ${sow}) AND (due before ${eow})
hide task count
`;
dv.paragraph('```tasks\n' + query + '\n```');

As you can see I get the current date from the computer (now), then use moment, included with Obsidian, to then get the first and last day of the current week. My weeks go from Monday to Sunday, so you may have to play with the sow and eow numbers to make it work for you initially.
My query is pretty basic. "not done" means all uncompleted tasks. the "NOT (path)" makes sure none of my template files will be included. Some of my templates combine templater and task code blocks to made clever notes. The due after and due before are the parts I couldn't get to work with just a tasks code block. "hide task count" is obvious. The dv.paragraph takes everything from the top part and puts it into a tasks code block, which is just the coolest thing to me.

I'm not a developer, it took me far too long to read through all the pages of examples and documentation for tasks and dataview before finally figuring out this solution. I don't know if I'll be able to trouble-shoot any issues you may have if you choose to use this code. I just figured I'd share it since it solves a problem I ran into. Remember, you have to wrap what you copy from here in a dataviewjs block not a tasks block.

[PeterBeckley]

I was too hasty and didn't test into the future enough to realize this wouldn't work as is. I found that out today, the end of my week, which would mess up the results as initially written. I hadn't intended for this Show and Tell to be a 'watch the newbie learn from his mistakes', but there we are. I did finally figure out that I was using now.day when I should've been using now.startOf. I have to use the subtract and add because of how 'before' and 'after' function like > and <, there is no >= or <= operators in tasks as far as I can tell. Here's the updated code. I've tested by shifting the date on my computer into the future and the past, and it is correctly calculating start of week and end of week now. This still all gets wrapped in a dataviewjs codeblock, not a tasks codeblock, and the "explain" function in tasks is still one of my favorite things it.

var now = moment();
var sow = now.startOf('week').subtract(1, 'days').format('YYYY-MM-DD');
var eow = now.endOf('week').add(8, 'days').format('YYYY-MM-DD');
const query = `
not done
NOT (path includes utils)
(due after ${sow}) AND (due before ${eow})
hide task count
`;
dv.paragraph('```tasks\n' + query + '\n```');

[ohlai]

THANK YOU! This is exactly what i was looking for :)

[BluBloos]

My goal is to dynamically display all tasks in my vault, for the current week only, which have the global filter but are not part of any templates I've made.

I'm a little confused by the latter part of the statement, i.e.

which have the global filter but are not part of any templates I've made.

What do you mean by this?

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at any rate, another question I have is: where do you care to have this display of tasks? maybe in your daily note?

[PeterBeckley]

I have created templates combining templater and tasks for my weekly review note, monthly review note, and annual note. Those templates show up in task lists by default, as expected. Since I don't want to see them, I exclude them from the results with the NOT (path) filter. I've included a screenshot showing part of my Monthly review template. This section creates three tasks all with a due date of the first of the month. Because I'm using the #task tag in the list items, and I've set that as my global filter in the Tasks plugin, these tasks would show up (with their template code) in my task lists. I hope that clears up what I meant.

Regarding where I have such a list of tasks, I use the Homepage plugin to create a "Dashboard". In the lower right column I have those tasks listed using the query above (and others). Here is a screenshot of my homepage. I've highlighted the 'templates' folder I want to ignore and where the task lists show up. I hope that answers your questions.

[BluBloos]

I see now, thanks for this detailed response!

[claremacrae]

Hi @PeterBeckley,

Thank you very much indeed for sharing your learnings. And I'm sorry it has been such a pain for you.

It sounds like you have got something working now, which is great.

But in case it helps, there was a previous discussion here: #1176 (comment)

Also, in case you haven't seen it, the explain Tasks instruction shows you how your dates in queries are interpreted, which can be super helpful.

Finally, we have someone kindly actively developing queries like this week and many related ones, as we speak...

So it should get easier soon.

[PeterBeckley]

The pain is growth and learning since I'm not a developer and know just enough to get into trouble lol. Also, I love the explain feature, it helped me understand better what was going on. It also helped me understand that I needed dataviewjs for the tricky dates I wanted. Tasks is such a powerful tool!

Addition: #1176 makes things a lot easier for my 'real time' tasks side bar! It doesn't help with the templates since they need hardcoded dates to function correctly, but I have everything working as I'd like now.

[derbits]

Hi Peter! I'm not a developer and I find very very interesting the way you control tasks in your templates. Do you share these templates? I will be very thankfull if I could try your beautiful work!!

[PeterBeckley]

I hope this doesn't reopen this, but I want to reply to the new comment. @derbits I don't have a place I share my Obsidian setup, I can't imagine it's of interest to enough people to bother. The portions of the template you're interested in are a screenshot in this thread already. You have to type it yourself.

[claremacrae]

My goal is to dynamically display all tasks in my vault, for the current week only

This is now possible via:

due in this week

There are many more date-range search facilities - https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Queries/Filters#Searching%20date%20ranges

I'll close this as released.