Dataview Dashboard

TL;DR — Install the Dataview plugin. Now you can write SQL-ish queries inside notes that pull live data from across your vault. Your daily note can show “all open tasks tagged @home” auto-updating. Your project notes can show “all meetings about this project, latest first.” Static notes become living dashboards.

What Dataview does

Dataview queries scan your vault’s notes, their tags, their frontmatter, and their inline metadata. Output goes back into the note as a live table or list.

A trivial example — in any note:

```dataview
LIST FROM #project
WHERE status = "active"
SORT file.mtime DESC
```

Renders inside the note as a bullet list of every note tagged #project with frontmatter status: active, sorted by most recently modified.

Real dashboards you can build

Today dashboard (in your daily note template):

## Open tasks

```dataview
TASK
FROM "20-Projects" OR "00-Inbox"
WHERE !completed
SORT created DESC
LIMIT 10
```

People you owe (in 60-People.md MOC):

```dataview
TABLE last_contact AS "Last seen", relationship AS "How"
FROM "60-People"
WHERE last_contact AND date(last_contact) < date(today) - dur(30 days)
SORT last_contact ASC
```

Habit heatmap (using inline metadata [exercise:: true] in daily notes):

```dataview
CALENDAR file.day
FROM "10-Daily"
WHERE exercise = true
```

Inline metadata — the secret sauce

Beyond frontmatter, Dataview reads inline metadata. Write:

The meeting [project:: q2-launch] ended with [decision:: ship June 15].

project and decision are now queryable fields.

How it pairs with Claude Code

The MOC Maintainer skill produces hand-curated MOCs; Dataview produces query-based ones. Use both: a hand-written intro paragraph + a Dataview block listing children.
The Weekly Review skill can dump completed tasks into the review via a Dataview query — saves the skill having to count manually.
Claude can write Dataview queries for you. “Show me all notes tagged #learn modified in the last 30 days” → it writes the query, pastes it into the note.

Install

Settings → Community plugins → Browse → “Dataview” → Install → Enable.

That’s it. No config needed for basics. Advanced: Settings → Dataview → enable “JavaScript queries” if you want the full DSL.

Sources

MOC Maintainer Pairs naturally — Dataview for the dynamic, MOC for the curated

Weekly Review Dataview makes the metrics section trivial