Roundup Notes in Obsidian with Dataview

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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!

Requirements:

This setup only requires the Dataview plugin.

Implementation:

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 : 1);

// "rendering" logic of the snippet
// renders effectively a list of links and embeds for each page
for (let page of sortedPages) {
  dv.paragraph(`[[${page.file.path}]]`)
  dv.paragraph(`![[${page.file.path}]]`)
}
```

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.

Examples:

In practice, I've used this for a few different use cases:

• A single note to see recurring 1-on-1 meeting notes with a specific individual
  • I've found this to be easier to scan for the previous iteration of the 1-on-1 and see if there are any topics I need to follow up on
• A roundup note for #self-reflection notes
  • Every so often I take some zettel-like notes adding some top of mind reflections on how I've been doing / how productive I've been / etc - so now I have a single roundup of those notes that I can scan through and come away with any deeper insights
• Daily note collection of Zettel-like notes
  • I now mostly take notes within "zettel-like" nodes (titled with a timestamp), so to connect them back to my daily notes I have used this pattern to render them all in order making it easier to see them all for a single day in one place

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