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Description: This script:
1. Opens /Dropbox/Task Management/Next Actions.taskpaper
2. Removes any occurences of @start(YYYY-MM-DD) from this file, where YYYY-MM-DD is on or before today
3. Folds all lines containing @start(YYYY-MM-DD), where YYYY-MM-DD is a future date

Another script of mine, "Custom Classes and Functions", must be installed for this to work.

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# the following code:
# 1. gets a DateObject for today
# 2. gets this date as a YYYY-MM-DD string
# 3. removes the dashes
# 4. stores this in the today variable
today = datetime.date.today().isoformat().replace('-', '')

# create a NumTemplate object for dates in the format ' @start(YYYY-MM-DD)' where YYYY-MM-DD
# is a date
# (the NumTemplate class is defined in the "Custom Classes and Functions" workflow)
date_template = NumTemplate(' @start\({}{}{}{}-{}{}-{}{}\)')

# unfold all text
editor.unfold_all()

# get the text of the current document, store this in the text variable
text = editor.get_text()

# the following code:
# 1. using NumTemplate.re_gen, forms a regular expression to match all occurences of 
#    ' @start(YYYY-MM-DD)' where YYYY-MM-DD is a past or present date
# 2. using re.sub(), removes matches to this re from text
# 3. replaces all text in the current document with this, without scrolling
editor.replace_text(0, len(text), re.sub(date_template.re_gen('<' + today, '=' + today), '', text), False)

# the following code:
# 1. using the gen method of the today object, forms a regular expression to match all occurences
#    of ' @start(YYYY-MM-DD)' where YYYY-MM-DD is a future date
# 2. passes this on as output
workflow.set_output(date_template.re_gen('>' + today))
Fold Lines Containing… ?
  • Regular Expression
  • Case-insensitive Search (A = a)
  • Case-sensitive Search (A ≠ a)
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# scroll to the top of the document
editor.set_scroll_position(0.0)