Query tasks for tomorrow / today

BikerChris · May 10, 2025, 9:42pm

Hello,

Sorry to trouble you all, I’ve been playing around with no joy and did do a brief search.

Is there a way to do a query that does this:

Find “now” tasks dated for today

I know how to display “now” tasks, but for example I’ve put a date on a task, and when that date becomes today, I would like just that task displayed.

Thanks in advance!

Chris

mentaloid · May 10, 2025, 10:09pm

Yes, there are ways, but you are not specific enough.

Logseq has a built-in NOW query.
- Find it in file config.edn

If by “dated for today” you mean “scheduled for today”, could use something like this:

 :inputs [:today]
 ...
   :in $ ?today
   ...
     [?b :block/scheduled ?d]
     [(= ?d ?today)]

Otherwise, be more specific by sharing:
- some example blocks
- your current query

BikerChris · May 11, 2025, 7:58am

Sorry for the poor comms @mentaloid

This might be more helpful.

Say I have a page relating to changes to a room

I’ve done most tasks, but I would like to display jobs to be done today - i.e. plasterboarding (today is the 11th, the task is set for tomorrow).

So far I’m capable of give a heading and below it, a query with the simple /query option, but at the moment I can only use a date range:

{{query (task NOW) (between [[May 11th, 2025]] [[May 15th, 2025]]))}}

This provides this output

What I would like to do, is instead of giving a date range, say

show tasks 'NOW' AND for 'TODAY'.

Playing around a little further, I see that doing this query, the plasterboarding dated for 12th, is still being shown despite the date range being between 13th and 15th:

{{query (task NOW) (between [[May 13th, 2025]] [[May 15th, 2025]]))}}

I was hoping this was possible as I note the docs suggest today/tomorrow is a possible function (please excuse me if I’m using the wrong phrasing).

https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/queries

I must admit, I’m confusing things a little, because a task is not technically NOW until the date arrives. The day before the NOW task, it should not display. But on the day of the task, I would hope that it would show, because I’ve asked for “NOW” tasks to be shown “TODAY”.

I do hope that makes sense, thanks again in advance.

mentaloid · May 11, 2025, 1:56pm

Yes, it is quite confusing to use NOW for a task that is actually for later.
- You may prefer to just use TODO instead.
between range checks the journal page a task is in.

In contrast, your block example contains a reference to the journal page.

Try this advanced query:

#+BEGIN_QUERY
{
 :inputs [:today]
 :query [:find (pull ?b [*])
   :in $ ?today
   :where
     [?p :block/journal-day ?d]
     [(= ?d ?today)]
     [?b :block/refs ?p]
     [?b :block/marker "NOW"]
 ]
}
#+END_QUERY