12 hours ago · Tech · 0 comments

Nesting queries inside collapsible callouts, plus custom colours and icons It’s true that plain text can be beautiful when it is boring in all the right ways, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun. Let’s take a look at an unashamedly Obsidian-only tweak I’ve been playing around with for the task lists that live in my plain text planner. Super niche, I know, but you can use the same principles with your own queries (or just text) in Obsidian. (If you’re new to app-agnostic text-based task management, this is how I handle my todos in plain text.) Here is a basic Obsidian-flavoured query that will show a list of all the lines in the file named todo-txt.md, that contain the strings (A) or (B): ```query file:todo-txt.md line:("(A) OR (B)") ``` It renders like this in preview mode: It shows me the tasks I need to focus on today, as well as those I want to find time for sometime this week, but this is where the fun begins! I want to see that task list under today’s date in my…

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