BASES - This Day In History

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Setup

  • Create a new “Base” - either directly in Obsidian or in the editor of your choice. Let’s call it This Day in History.base.
  • Open the new file in your text editor.
  • Copy the code below and paste it into the editor.
  • Save the file.
  • Adapt the code in the text editor or open the file in Obsidian and adjust the filter settings there to match your environment.
  • Embed the Base in your daily notes.

Important

This is based on the assumption that your daily notes are named in the format YYYY-MM-DD. If they are not, you need to adapt the query accordingly.

Result

You will get a list of notes created on this day over the years. If you place it inside a callout, it looks like this:

Callout listing daily notes created on October 9 in previous years

Info

The code will only give you a list of files. In the image above, I embedded the Base in a callout.

Code

filters:
  and:
    - file.basename != this.file.basename
properties:
  file.name:
    displayName: Name
views:
  - type: list
    name: Table
    filters:
      and:
        - file.name.contains(date(this.file.name).format("MM-DD").toString())
    sort:
      - property: file.name
        direction: DESC

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