Searching in Obsidian

General

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Embedded queries

• embedded query: custom sort? e.g. by the ranking of a nested tag (e.g. a status or priority tag with nested subcategories)?
  • no custom sort, no
  • but more sort options by file name, create date or modify date by installing nothingislost/obsidian-query-control: An experimental Obsidian plugin that adds controls to embedded queries - adds sorting and display options for embedded queries

Inbox

• My Obsidian setup • A nice example of using a handful of pages populated by embedded queries to surface what matters in a vault • Go Make Things 📖
• Creating a one-stop “priorities” note in Obsidian
• Exclude Tag from Search - Help - Obsidian Forum
• searching: nothingislost/obsidian-query-control: An experimental Obsidian plugin that adds controls to embedded queries
• searching: How I Use Embedded Queries In Obsidian To Simplify My Note Management | HeyMichelleMac
• searching: Search - Obsidian Help
• searching: with a complex search where only some matches in a file match all conditions, how to return only those matches?
  • search operators: use line: or block: to narrow down results from a file to only those where all conditions are met in a single instance (e.g. only results where both tags appear on the same line, rather than all instances that include either in a file that contains both overall)
  • e.g. line:(#question #p/high) = lines in a file that include both the text “#question” and the text “#p/high”; a text search, rather than a tag search, but scoped to single lines instead of whole files (the default)
  • see “Search operators” here: Search - Obsidian Help
• how to use OR when searching?
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• scambier/obsidian-omnisearch: A search engine that “just works” for Obsidian. Supports OCR and PDF indexing. - search vault/current file in a spotlight-like pop-up instead of in the sidebar
• omnisearch: How to use Omnisearch - Omnisearch - Obsidian Publish - use "..." for exact searches and -string to exclude results
• omnisearch: Public API & URL Scheme - Omnisearch - Obsidian Publish - can use Omnisearch API with the Dataview plugin
• dataview: Dataview
• Search - Obsidian Help
• Notion vs Obsidian // Databases vs Dataview • Nicole van der Hoeven 📺
  • Same concept applies (even better) to embedded queries, which run much more quickly
• use regex in search by surrounding search with /s
  • JS-flavoured regex
• searching in a note:
  • use vim / instead of default search for easier keyboard usage! (same note for vs code)
    • obsidian/vs code: vim file search with /: use for find/replace as well?