Keeping track of your progress with an activity using a button

From my Obsidian + Plugin REPL Cookbook

Sometimes you want to keep track of your progress on a task or project in Obsidian, which you might represent with a note. One approach is just to dump your thoughts into the note tag it with a timestamp or date (possible with the help of DatePicker) and tidy up later. However, if you note is quite long this can be start to be a pain particularly as you have to jump around to find your progress updates… and it can be nice to keep things neat.

One approach that I’ve used is to have a button in your note to create a child note, which you track with a dataview query.

I use the following meta bind button which I created with its fancy builder.

```meta-bind-button
label: Progress
icon: ""
hidden: false
class: ""
tooltip: ""
id: ""
style: default
actions:
  - type: templaterCreateNote
    templateFile: progress-reports/create-progress-report.md
    folderPath: /
    fileName: ""
    openNote: true
    openIfAlreadyExists: false
```

This then uses a Templater template to create a note with the date in the title and a tag.

<% await tp.file.rename("Progress on "+ tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD"))%>
<% tp.file.cursor() %>

#progress-report

Then I also have a Dataview query in the note to track a task:

```dataview
LIST FROM #progress-report
```

I found someone doing something similar (with a more complete script) on reddit.

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