Best practise regarding process other people's text for learning?

[holroy]

My take on this being an avid Dataview user is to use inline fields to mark out the highlights. See post below for a larger example on how to insert pointers and highlight bits and pieces of your text, readily available for extraction by Dataview.

Extract highlights from the text and put them at the beginning of the same note

Where did you try to use that regexmatch() of yours? And does it really have the full content of the file available in file.text? I’ve got two variants which I would consider in a similar use case, and that would be decorated tasks, or inline fields. Both of these would with dataview be easy to gather up a list of at the top of the document without disturbing/rewriting the file itself. Using tasks In minimal theme, and quite a few others, you can insert various different status characters, and…