Feature request: Query tasks based on creation date

[psychsatani]

Hi,
my use case is to keep track of old tasks that have gotten unmanaged. I used to do this in Todoist and would be lovely if I can get that done on obsidian too.

[schemar]

Thanks, I also think this would be a nice addition. I am just worried about the length of the of the tasks line when we keep adding more details. Scheduling is also being discussed. Any ideas?

[wenlzhang]

Could including such information in sub-items be an option? For instance:

- [ ] Task A #task
  - Info
    - Creation date/time: 202105222045
    - Other things can also be automatically included here.

To not make things/tasks too complicated, one can choose to include such information or not in the configuration pane.

[schemar]

Interesting idea. I will think about it more 🤔

[Gnopps]

Would it be possible to query the note file creation or edit date (as an indicator of task age) instead?

[schemar]

That's being discussed in #93 😊
Please vote and/or comment on that discussion.

[KennyDenvers]

Query for "created before" etc. would be great and appears to be as fairly basic query. But I don't know about coding so there are apparently issues that I am missing. Would be great to see that option though.

[maia-sh]

Mistakenly commented on this topic under #67, so moving the suggestions here.

Suggestions

I also like the multiline/sub-item suggestion, but if keeping on a single line I imagine something like:

• Take out the trash 📅 2021-07-01 ✏️ 2021-06-21

The inclusion of a creation date could be set globally or task-by-task (suggestions in blue):

Current workaround

In the meanwhile, I'm using a workaround by including the creation date in the description (using espanso to quickly add the emoticon and current date) and then add the same to my query (using Templater plugin). For example, to find tasks created today, I would query:

```tasks
description includes ✏️ <% tp.date.now() %>
```

[vJourneyman]

I currently do exactly this, though with Dataview's pre-supported ➕2022-11-03 format. My current workaround is to have a hotkey'd template which contains ➕{{date}}. However, it seems silly that there's a bunch of optional metadata that excludes the creation date. It's all optional, right? If someone doesn't want to use it, more power to them.

Use case:
I have a Dataview query in my Daily Note which shows me all the task items that I've created during that day (and of course, whether they have due-dates, scheduled dates, are complete, priority, etc). I can see at a glance, all the tasks I've created for the day throughout the vault.

This directly mirrors another Dataview query which shows me all the tasks that I've completed that day.

When it comes to tracking daily productivity, I find task creation a really important visual measurement of how the day has gone.

[claremacrae]

Hi @vJourneyman If I understand correctly, you are all sorted with dataview and don’t need any changes in Tasks? And are sharing your workaround in dataview for others to use. Is that correct?

[vJourneyman]

Not quite. I'm presenting a workaround, but suggesting that it would be great for the ➕{{date} to be part of Tasks. Dataview is great for querying the meat from Tasks (or my workaround).

[vJourneyman]

And really, the only reason I'm using Dataview is that Tasks doesn't have the built in support. :-)

[claremacrae]

Haha that's great, thank you for the clarification.
I am working in steps towards incrementing this feature. No planned date yet.

[claremacrae]

The new optional created field was was released, in Tasks 2.0.0.

Example:
- [ ] take out the trash ➕ 2021-04-09

Docs:

• Adding the created field
  • please read, to see how to add the created date automatically, and known limitations
• Searching the created values