Creating a glossary from a folder

[TysonNW]

What I’m trying to do

I am have a folder of glossary terms, each with their own file that I link to so when I mouseover the link I get the glossary item.

I would like to make a dataview query where I get a list of the filename wrapped with bold markdown followed by the file contents.

I can work with a table where the contents of each file are in a corresponding cell, but I would prefer a list.

I am not wed to dataview if there is a better solution. As it stands I am looking at a script to generate the list, but I would prefer it dynamically updates as I add files and make changes.

Things I have tried

        TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link as name, file.content
        FROM "SRD/Glossary"
        WHERE !contains(file.name, "_")
        SORT file.name asc

        TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link as name, embed(file.link)
        FROM "SRD/Glossary"
        WHERE !contains(file.name, "_")
        SORT file.name asc

        list file.content
        FROM "SRD/Glossary"
        WHERE !contains(file.name, "_")
        SORT file.name asc

For Bonus points

I also want to make spell lists from files in a specific folder that use this template

---
Tier: 1
Classes: 
Casting Time: 
Target: 
Duration:
---
## `= this.file.name`
- **Tier** `= this.tier`, `= this.classes`
- **Casting Time** `= this.casting-time`
- **Target** `= this.target`
- **Duration** `= this.duration`

So a query that also processes the contents of the file would be great.

[JLDiaz]

It can be done using dataviewjs. For example:

const folder = "Glossary";
const files = dv.pages(`"${folder}"`)
    .where(p => p.file.name !== "Glossary")
    .sort(p => p.file.name);
for (let page of files) {
  dv.header(3, `**${page.file.name}**`);
  dv.paragraph(`![[${folder}/${page.file.name}|clean no-title collapse]]`);
}

This snippet assumes the following:

• All your glossary notes are in a folder called “Glossary” (you can change the variable folder otherwise)
• Each of the notes in “Glossary” folder contains a simple definition (it can use markdown and even link to other notes or glossary terms). No “top-level” heading repeating the term being defined.
• The note containing the above snippet is called Glossary.md or is outside the “Glossary” folder
• You have installed the css snippet Embed Adjustments (this is to remove the extra space and the note name around embeddings)

For example, I created a sample “Glossary” folder, containing:

For example, the note for “Block” contains:

A section of content in a note, such as a paragraph, list item, or heading, that can be referenced or [[linking|linked]].

The one for Dataview contains:

A powerful [[Obsidian]] [[plugin]] that allows you to query, filter, and display notes using custom views.

etc..

The result of running the dataviewjs snippet is (Obsidian default theme, Embed Adjustments snippet installed):

You can ctrl+hover on the links to reveal the linked note, or click on them to jump.

Note: The “Embed Adjustments” is crucial to get a cleaner view. The result without that snippet is uglier:

[JLDiaz]

As for your second request, I don’t see the relation with the first one. Do you want these “spells” to be listed as part of the glossary? Otherwise it is a different question, so better remove it from this one and create a new thread for it.