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For a while now I've been tweaking my Obsidian setup and leaning more and more into using the Dataview plugin to create dynamic sections or notes within my vault.
Recently I've been re-using mostly the same snippet over and over to create quick access summary or roundup notes within my vault and I figured I'd share it for others to use if they find it useful!
This setup only requires the Dataview plugin.
The snippet that I've continued to re-use has been the following:
```dataviewjs
let pages = dv.pages('<query>');
// Optional - this reverses the order of notes
// sorting from most recent to oldest based on file created time
// but this can be replaced with other logic to sort based
// on properties or other aspects of the pages!
let sortedPages = pages.values.toSorted((a, b) => a.file.ctime > b.file.ctime ? -1 :
The <query> can be replaced with effectively anything that you want to match on - it can be file paths/folders or tags (e.g. #meeting). See the dv.pages(source) docs for more details.
You can swap dv.pages() out for await dv.query() for a bit more control over the content that you query for, however the resulting value will be a different shape - so the sorting and rendering logic may need to change!
In practice, I've used this for a few different use cases:
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Matt Hamlin
@matthamlin.me
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