Accessing Things 3 "Today" List With Keyboard Maestro

[vincent_ardern]

Screenshots would help us immensely here

[ajcowell]

Fair point! Attached.

[ajcowell]

And of course now I see the issue. Append to Variable vs. Save to Variable.

[Mark_Salam]

This is great and has been super helpful. One question ... how would you further filter the Today list using tags? I'm entirely unable to figure it out. Thanks!

[ComplexPoint]

Perhaps, for example:

Things today list filtered by tag.kmmacros (2.4 KB)

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(.flatMap, with a function that returns its value wrapped in [ ... ], combines the roles of .map and .filter, if we return an empty list ([]) for values that we want to skip )

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(() => {
    "use strict";

    const
        things = Application("Things3"),
        todayList = things.lists.byName("Today");

    const
        kme = Application("Keyboard Maestro Engine"),
        tagName = kme.getvariable("thingsTagName");

    return [
        `Filtered by tag "${tagName}":\n`,
        ...todayList.toDos()
        .flatMap(
            toDo => toDo.tags.name().includes(tagName) ? (
                [`- [] ${toDo.name()}`]
            ) : []
        )
    ]
    .join("\n");
})();

[Mark_Salam]

Brilliant. Thank you so much for taking the time. I notice that it comes up empty if the tag is applied at the Area level. (For example I apply a Work tag to my Work Area so that in the today list I can filter using the "work" tag...if that makes sense) Is there a way for that to work?

[ComplexPoint]

I don't use Things myself, so not tested, but it looks as if you may be able to replace the code above with something like:

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(() => {
    "use strict";

    const
        things = Application("Things3"),
        todayList = things.lists.byName("Today");

    const
        kme = Application("Keyboard Maestro Engine"),
        tagName = kme.getvariable("thingsTagName");

    return [
        `Filtered by tag "${tagName}":\n`,
        ...todayList.toDos()
        .flatMap(
            toDo => toDo.tags.name().includes(tagName) || (() => {
                const maybeArea = toDo.area();

                return null !== maybeArea && maybeArea.tags.name()
                .includes(tagName);
            })() ? [`- [] ${toDo.name()}`] : []
        )
    ]
    .join("\n");
})();