Creating and Viewing Multiple Searches Similtaneously for Comparison?

[Jasony]

I am new to Obsidian and to this community. I’m working on an investigative journalism project that involves many individuals activities over many years. I’ve been creating a timeline of events as notes with dates and tags for each person. What I want to do is to be able to create a table where I can compare the individual’s timelines side by side, perhaps in a table. I have been adding the dates of each event in the title of the note as yyyy-mm-dd as well is in the properties using the same format. And I have been tagging the individual person involved in each event as well. So right now I can search a person and see in chronological order all the events they participated in. For example, John Smith met with Jane Doe on such and such date… I want to be able to have a row with descending dates and columns with who, what, where, etc. So I can compare for example what several people were doing on a given day. I hope this makes sense. I’m trying to do my best to describe what I’m envisioning. Like parallel chronologies of individuals side by side. Any help or pointing me in the right direction would be much appreciated. I’ve added dataview plugin and learning it but still not seeing how I can do this. I’ve also searched this forum as well is the wider internet for some ideas but still coming up short. Seems like a simple thing but may require creating some kind of script. I’m hoping there’s something out there already that grants my wish.

Thanks and my apologies for my possibly confusing description.

[CawlinTeffid]

Answering the question in the title literally (which I think isn’t quite what you want), you could can view multiple embedded searches at the same time.

I imagine DataView can do what you want, but I can’t help with it.

If you have access to Insider builds, the Bases feature that’s in beta may be able to do it, and if so may provide a more user friendly interface than DataView.

[JLDiaz]

Dataview is very flexible, because in a dataviewjs block it allows you to query your vault, apply filters and maps using javascript, and create a data structure with the elements you need, and then present the result as a table. So it is well suited for your problem.

However I cannot give an example for this, because I would need more details about how your notes are structured. For example, in your table you want a column of dates (that could be obtained from a date property or similar in each note), but also want “who”, “what”, and “where” columns. From your description apparently the “who” part is stored in tags. It would be easier if they were properties too. And where the “what” and “where” information come from? What is the content of a note? Could you provide some examples?