Queries and tasks ... again

v2: Troubleshooting
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Alrighty, here we go. I’m trying to get a daily journal template up and running, referencing upcoming/due, overdue, and undated tasks. Current template includes the following:

## Overdue Tasks
${template.each(
query[[
  from t = index.tag "task"
where t.deadline < os.date('%Y-%m-%d')
  and not t.done
]],
templates.taskItem
)}

This pulls the correct tasks, but then it writes them into the page, creating a duplicate of the task for the next day’s query. In other words, the query results keep growing with duplicates included on preceding days’ journal pages. I can create a “live widget” query that doesn’t write the tasks in the page permanently, but then I lose routine interaction with the task (can’t figure out how to display or check the task checkbox, for example).

So this isn’t really a query question–my query works fine. It’s about formatting the results. Namely, how do I get the results in a live format that I can interact with and is not baked into the text of the containing page?

2

Have you tried replacing $ with ${"$"}?

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3

I cannot believe I didn’t try that. I think I just didn’t associate that trick as being a global solution.

Anyway, seems to have worked.

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