How to use Dataview and Templater to run JavaScript in Obsidian for automating task management
TIL how to run JavaScript in @obsdmd. A friend of mine had an interesting use case: He had a long reading list from his studies, and wanted to use Obsidian to decide what he could read given a certain amount of time.
TL;DR: Here’s the script. And here’s the end result: Requires: Obsidian. The Dataview and Templater plugins. Also requires a separate markdown page for every chapter or bite-sized section of the book or course, with the metadata time_required in the YAML frontmatter.