An Introduction to Dataview - Part 1
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- This is an introduction to the Dataview plugin for Obsidian. We go over the basics of using YAML frontmatters for providing explicit metadata in your Obsidian notes; introduce the basic components of Dataview queries and show some advanced use cases. Finally, we construct and debug some queries live.
This was the first live event with hopefully many more to come. You can request topics or even offer to host a talk or a workshop here: forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-...
You can find more information on Obsidian here: www.obsidian.md/
You can install the Dataview plugin through the Obsidian settings. To get involved in development or report feature requests or issues, check out the GitHub repo at github.com/blacksmithgu/obsid....
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
4:05 Overview of the talk
7:00 Metadata
20:25 `List`
21:22 `From`
28:39 `Task`
35:20 `Where`
42:46 `Table`
46:34 `Sort`
48:15 `Flatten`
49:17 `Group By`
52:05 Neat Examples
56:03 Q&A
1:16:06 Info on Community Talks - Věda a technologie
I just finished watching this and was taking notes and doing my own examples while learning. This video was incredibly helpful and you did a great job explaining how the plugin works. Thank you!
Thank you for organizing this, and making the video available!
Our pleasure!
Thank you a bunch! This was INCREDIBLY helpful; it will definitely optimize my productivity in Obsidian.
Thank you very much for sharing your experience in handling the data view plugin functionality. This was very helpful for me!
I've watched Nicole van der Hoeven video about Dataview (great video, by the way) and just found out about this one. Great content. Thanks for posting. Dataview is a very powerful plugin and it really enhances Obsidian's utility.
This is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing you knowledge with us.
This….was….so….helpful!!!!! I’m so excited that I understand this!!!!! 🤓Thank you so much for these videos🥰
This was very useful and clear! Thank you for sharing this
Good work! Takes a while to watch, as I can repeat every step on my machine. Did learn a lot.
Very glad I found this, it was very helpful
FIRST! 🎉️
Thank you so much for this... you guys ROCK!!
Thank you so much for this!
This is a HUGE unlock, thanks for building it!
Hi!
Thanks for this great tutorial, I've been looking for this
well this just made keeping my archives and MOCs tidy a lot easier lol
Thanks a lot for making the video. Clearly shows how powerful obsidian can become.
I an curious about the plugins in you obsidian. There are a lot of them. Would love to know about them
Thanks for the video!
Thanks for this!
It's always a good idea to use light background when sharing code snippets. The contrast between the background and commas or brackets is so little that I had to up the brightness to see them.
I get you're trying to hide it to focus on data, it's just hard to read on my mobile screen.
Thank you for making this video. Wasn't feeling like reaching documentation today.
Excellent! 👏👏👏👏👏
Hey thanks for the great video.
One question: how did you make those yoga positions into a link on 53:27 in the dataviewer? I saw you wrote - - - and the file name but it doesn't seem to work for me.
This is awesome.
Thanks for the great Introduction! - I was looking for that!
Can you help me - When I enter a metadata block (the three dashes twice) it shows it in the preview - as soon as I enter Key - Value pairs in between - the metadata block disapears form the preview...
Hi, that was really helpful.
Is there a way to: List/Table from all the files to display Outgoing links for which the New Page is not created yet.
Great stuff! Thanks!
What if I want to list all notes that contain link to the current note?
list
from ""
Where file.name.field = this.file.name
?
What is missing here?
Hello! Please tell me how you can use the plugin to make a list of H3 headings for the current note.
Thank you for the great walkthrough! Unrelated question, 1:11:03 does anyone know how to automatically insert a template by putting in a tag? I need this magic in my life >
can data view plugin go through notes and count words, compare words? can data view go through notes and based on specific words and phrases select those words and backlink them to other prespecified notes?
Wow wow wow 😳
How do I filter only part of a string contained in the metadata? For example, I have an Author attribute: with the strings John A and John B. I need to list all authors that have the string "John", ie the expected result should be John A and John B.
In:
```dataview
List from Bibliography where Author = "John"
```
Result 0. I tried to use the "contains" function also without success.
Could someone help me please. I don't know programming.
How did you guys make the slides look so nice? Also do you have any tips for better Slideshow presenting in Obsidian?
@SkepticMystic here :) I made the slides using [Reveal.js]( revealjs.com ) - an open source service which lets you make slideshows in Markdown! I have recently offered to give an Obsidian Talk on this, you can find the voting post here: forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-talks-which-talks-do-you-want-to-hear/15705
@@obsidiancommunitytalks9199 Thanks, I already gave my vote on the poll!
How were you able to type ",d" and insert a dataview block at 43:00 is that a plugin?
Is it possible to display certain images in the style of apple photos or google photos? Or maybe just like instagram… a bunch of squares, filled with photos with the tag: inspiration for example
Can anyone help out? I don’t understand why, when I enter the ‘minimal query’
```dataview
list
```
I get a parsing error. If I add something to it, for instance
```dataview
list from -“Help”
```
the parsing error disappears (even though “Help” is a non-existing folder.
This is so exciting. If I were a dog, I'd be wagging my tail =).
13:45 you say that it wasn't possible to use links in the YAML frontmatter, and that dataview has found a workaround. You never mentioned what it was, was it automatic? Because it does not work anymore.
Ahh I see, this doesn't work anymore.
What you can do is use the `link` function to transform the field value into a link.
```
Table link(field, field) as link
where field
```
excellent video, just subscribed!
btw, what is the way you make these presentations ?
Thanks John! I use revealjs to make the slides. I spoke about this a little in the pandoc video. There is a workflow to write slideshows in markdown using Obsidian, then run pandoc to convert that md to a revealjs slideshow
Is there any way for this query:
In my daily note template, I want to have a Dataview query that will search incomplete tasks from other notes in that same folder EXCEPT for that current note.
Just watch the whole video everything you need is shown
1) Is there a way to copy the result of a Dataview query from obsidian and paste it into Notepad/MS Word/Excel etc. Any plugin which can help us in doing this?
2) If i have text in obsidian with formatting like [[ ]], bold etc.., how can i copy the text without formatting/[[]] and paste it into notepad/MS Word as plain text?
Thanks in advance for your help.
helpful video, thanks for sharing! btw.. what browser is that on the right and theme? :D
@SkepticMystic here. Haha thanks! I use the Vivaldi browser, specifically for their tab stack functionality :D and my Obsidian theme is gruvbox
thanks for this video, i wondered how to list notes be keywords??
could I use a dataview query to do something like pulling any equations out of my notes? like I don't want all the notes with equations in them I want to see a list of the actual equations
Not sure about your direct question but a possible work around could be to use the Note Refactor plug in to pull your equations into their own note. This would leave a link to it in the original and you could then use YAML in the new refactored note. You could then have a standing third note with a Data View query which would pull those equations into a single reference list or table.
does anyone know how to make multi-word tags in Obsidian using YAML - I think I saw it mentioned in this video or another one recently. I know that generally this isn't possible, but I am certain I have seen it done with YAML. Please let me know!
Tags can't have spaces, so to have multiple words you'll need another approach.
Using dashes `-`, underscores `_`, or CamelCasing works.
#Long-Tag, #Long_Tag, #LongTag
How to get a numbered list in a Table view or a List view instead of a bullet list?
You can use this css snippet to number the rows of a dataview table:
.table-view-table {
counter-reset: section;
}
.table-view-table > tbody > tr > td:first-child::before {
counter-increment: section;
content: counter(section) ". ";
}
@@obsidiancommunitytalks9199 It worked! Thank you so much!! 😀
Sorry for my different type of Qs ! I see your browser Sidebar ... Til i watching your video , it's annoying me how can i do mine to same :D Is it Firefox ? It's a extension ? Thx for your help ...
it's Vivaldi browser
This is really helpful, thanks!
Is there a way when listing all tasks to exclude the "checked/done" tasks? Edit to add: Yes there is :)
```dataviewjs
dv.taskList(dv.pages().file.tasks
.where(t => !t.completed))
```
NO WAIT I have a more important question: Can I have a table output that shows me _how many_ notes I edited on a certain day? So it doesn't show me the file titles but the sum of edited files?
(Sorry if any of these questions are answered after 42:00, I stopped watching and started fumbling out of excitement, will finish later!)
What's your theme? Awesome plugin, good job
Thanks
I used a combination of Revealjs' "Blood" theme, and some custom css. You can find the slides and stylesheet in this public Community Talks Google Drive folder :)
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EisLsGurC9-LfESoV46lJ-FpJrzzk3BC?usp=sharing
@@obsidiancommunitytalks9199 Niice, thank you for that
But I was talking about Obsidian theme hihihi
I use the Gruvbox theme :)
@@obsidiancommunitytalks9199 do you have any suggestion on how to learn how to use Revealjs with Obsidian?
Where was this happening live?
@SkepticMystic - We held the live session on Zoom this past Saturday (2021-04-10).
You can be notified of the live sessions on the Obsidian Discord:
- Go to the #Announcements page, and react to the message @Silver posted. This will give you the @Community Talks role to be notified of future announcements :)
@@obsidiancommunitytalks9199 Thank You.
Could you pass me the file with the video information?
What sort of info are you looking for?
Video starts at 7:17
Thanks a lot for this great video. At czcams.com/video/sEgzrRNkgsE/video.htmlsi=AfcYVuPFoR4bzXU4&t=4066: Why do the links have to be in the yaml section? If you ask dataview for notes that contain a certain link, it yields all notes with the link anywhere in the note, not only in the yaml section, right? So when is the whole note content considered, and when is only the yaml section considered?
Awesome video! I've just watched it and I came up with an example with dates:
## People that have birthday today
```dataview
TABLE FirstName + " " + LastName as "Name",
Dates.Birthdate as "Birth Date"
FROM #people
WHERE string(date(Dates.Birthdate).day) = string(date(today).day)
AND string(date(Dates.Birthdate).month) = string(date(today).month)
```