I’m not sure if anyone has tried Roam Portal search when they tried Roam, but it’s a really powerful search enhancement. I included some of the features below. I think it would be really cool to get another more advanced search plugin with features like this or others. Thoughts?
View your recently edited blocks
Search within all of your block results and embeds
Tweet individual blocks
View search results sorted by date
Filter search results by date
Filter search results by page
Visualize and compare usage of your page and block references over time
I have never used roam, but that sounds cool. To save time reading below, I am basically looking for a plugin that could analyze all unique words in a note minus any words, symbols, or punctuation from a custom exclusion list.
While I am sure there are other word cloud like toolsets that do something similar to what I am asking, I prefer to let my important documents get looked at by as little software as possible, so if anyone already knows how to do this more efficiently than I am, I’d love to hear it.
So basically I have been using a simple macro that does ctrl+right arrow then enter on a loop going through my notes.
After doing search and empty replace for punctuation, symbols, numbers, and uninteresting words, I am copying and pasting this into a spreadsheet to alphabetize, then using remove duplicate functionality and finally selecting all then deselecting all obvious unneeded words before copying to a new list.
Next, I append double brackets before and after each word in list using similar search and replace tactics but with .* for search and [[& then &]] for replace with regular expressions turned on.
Finally, I paste into Obsidian and scan through and actually create notes for the important words I see that I may not have already created category notes for.
I would definitely appreciate if there were a plugin or advanced search feature of some sort that did some of this leg work, perhaps with a few more bells and whistles for analysis or visualization or insights about words certain words tend to be near.