Request for comments: Dataview `TASK` support

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I’m currently looking into adding support for Dataview TASK queries.

If you’re one of the people waiting for that: What exactly are you looking for in this feature? I would like to learn what your use case would be.

Thanks!

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Hi @czottmann, I am waiting for TASK queries to transfer tasks to calendar. In this case, these following items would be useful from my side:

  • Getting tasks from a specific note, include original tasks and the result of tasks query in this note.
  • Getting properties of a task, like scheduled date, start and end timestamp.
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I’ve spent the day looking into support for TASK queries, and let’s just say it’s not as straightforward as I suspected it to be, i.e. due to cross-referencing of tasks, sub-tasks, the possibility of grouping, etc.

To be honest, this ↑ combined with the number of people requesting it (= one, hi @zhou7777777!) makes me think that this feature will not be used much by my customers, and therefore I doubt that implementing it is a good use of my time.

So, I’ve decided to put it on ice for the time being. I might add it at some point in the future but that time is not now.

Sorry, and I hope you’ll understand. I’m open to comments and suggestions, of course.

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My usecase would be to have an automation on iOS which shows me my due tasks for the day. I have to admit I do not manage to open/create my daily note as a first step every day so this will push me a little bit back on track for the day :wink:

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Hi all. My usecase would be to implement push of tasks from Obsidian (which I use for note taking, including action items) into Omnifocus (which I use for task management). Without this I am left in attempting to parse the note as text, which is a real pity…

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Reading my tasks is the main thing I want to use Actions for. It’s…disappointing to see it doesn’t support them. If it comes to support them, I’ll probably pay for it.

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I would love this feature a lot! It would help to automate extracting tasks to do with iOS and on my Mac!

The way I would use it: every day extract the tasks to do with a specific tag/query, and then fill up either a Reminder list (iOS/macOS) with such tasks, and generate some text for an email to send/prepare.

Is this the right forum to ask for features? How can we help to have it implemented? @czottmann

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Welcome, @koalalorenzo. Generally, this is the right forum to as for features, yes! Just please don’t cram all requests you might have into the same thread. One thread per request, this makes conversations about each request much more manageable.

Ask for Dataview TASK support – y’all could start by giving me some DQL to query for tasks, i.e. your actual DQL. And please post a screenshot containing the results as well. (I don’t care about the actual tasks, I’m just interested in the overall output structure.)

The more input I get, the easier it should be for me to generalize what’s necessary. No promises – unless you’d be happy with a JSON-encoded string result in Shortcuts :wink: