"Rollover Daily Todos" for Obsidian Templater

README.md

Rollover Daily Todos for Obsidian, but with the Templater Plugin

Rollver daily todos is a really nice extension for Obsidian.md that takes TODOs from yesterdays daily notes and rolls them over to today's notes. It has support for Obsidians built-in templates, but does - to my understanding - not really work well with the Templater Plugin. At least, I was unable to get it to work :-). Also, I wished it had some way to tell me that TODOs have been rolled over a few times already. Doing it this way is my way of working around these limitations.

I took some of the code of that "rollover daily todos" plugin and made it into a templater user script.

How to use

• Copy rollover_daily_todos.js into your templater user scripts directory.
• Include it in your daily notes template, like so:

# Tasks

<% await tp.user.rollover_daily_todos() %>

If your folder id different from "Tasks/Daily", you might need to call it like this:

# Tasks

<% await tp.user.rollover_daily_todos(folder="My/Daily/Notes/Folder") %>

• Activate templater plugin in the settings. Make sure to tick "Trigger templater on new file creation" (2), enable folder templates (3) and add your daily notes template

• Import the user script like this in the settings (1):

rollover_daily_todos.js

async function getAllUnfinishedTodos(file, tasksHeader) {
  const contents = await this.app.vault.read(file);
  const contentsForDailyTasks = contents.split(tasksHeader)[1] || contents;
  const unfinishedTodosRegex = /\t*- \[ \].*/g
  const unfinishedTodos = Array.from(contentsForDailyTasks.matchAll(unfinishedTodosRegex)).map(([todo]) => todo)
  return unfinishedTodos;
}


function getLastDailyNote(folder, format) {
	const { moment } = window

	// get all notes in directory that aren't null
	const dailyNoteFiles = this.app.vault.getAllLoadedFiles()
	  .filter(file => file.path.startsWith(folder))
	  .filter(file => file.basename != null)

	// remove notes that are from the future
	const todayMoment = moment()
	let dailyNotesTodayOrEarlier = []
	dailyNoteFiles.forEach(file => {
	  if (moment(file.basename, format).isSameOrBefore(todayMoment, 'day')) {
		dailyNotesTodayOrEarlier.push(file)
	  }
	})

	// sort by date
	const sorted = dailyNotesTodayOrEarlier.sort((a, b) => moment(b.basename, format).valueOf() - moment(a.basename, format).valueOf());
	return sorted[1];
};

async function rollover_daily_todos(folder = "Tasks/Daily", format = "YYYY-MM-DD", tasksHeader = "# Tasks", rolloverMarkCharacter = "❗") {
    return (await getAllUnfinishedTodos(getLastDailyNote(folder, format), tasksHeader)).map(task => `${task}${rolloverMarkCharacter}`).join('\n');
}

module.exports = rollover_daily_todos;

Amazing work, thank you. If anyone is interested in embedding the code inside their daily template to avoid creating user script directory and stuff you can use the templater <%* %> tags and the special tR variable to achieve this:

<%*
async function getAllUnfinishedTodos(file, tasksHeader) {
  const contents = await this.app.vault.read(file);
  const contentsForDailyTasks = contents.split(tasksHeader)[1] || contents;
  const unfinishedTodosRegex = /\t*- \[ \].*/g
  const unfinishedTodos = Array.from(contentsForDailyTasks.matchAll(unfinishedTodosRegex)).map(([todo]) => todo)
  return unfinishedTodos;
}

function getLastDailyNote(folder, format) {
	const { moment } = window

	// get all notes in directory that aren't null
	const dailyNoteFiles = this.app.vault.getAllLoadedFiles()
	  .filter(file => file.path.startsWith(folder))
	  .filter(file => file.basename != null)

	// remove notes that are from the future
	const todayMoment = moment()
	let dailyNotesTodayOrEarlier = []
	dailyNoteFiles.forEach(file => {
	  if (moment(file.basename, format).isSameOrBefore(todayMoment, 'day')) {
		dailyNotesTodayOrEarlier.push(file)
	  }
	})

	// sort by date
	const sorted = dailyNotesTodayOrEarlier.sort((a, b) => moment(b.basename, format).valueOf() - moment(a.basename, format).valueOf());
	return sorted[1];
};

async function rollover_daily_todos(folder = "Tasks/Daily", format = "YYYY-MM-DD", tasksHeader = "# Tasks") {
	const lastDailyNote = getLastDailyNote(folder, format);
	const unfinishedTodos = await getAllUnfinishedTodos(lastDailyNote, tasksHeader);
	return unfinishedTodos;
}

const unfinishedTodos = await rollover_daily_todos(folder="daily");

unfinishedTodos.forEach(task => {
	tR += `${task}\n`;
})
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