Discord user Logiz’s way to search for only the parent segment of a nested tag:
(I’ve adjusted the formatting somewhat.)
solved searching only a tag and not its sub tags using regex …
note that each
/needs a\before it, like this\/.
(?!\S)at the end is to make sure the there is no further characters afterwards.for the tag
#a/b
you would paste this into the search bar
/#a\\/b(?!\S)/this will exclude
#a/b/c#a/b/d#a/b/x(you get the point)this would show notes with only this specific tag.
(Copied with permission. Source: Discord)
Things to note because this is a plain text search instead of a tag: search and thus doesn’t use the tag index:
- Only matches hashtags, not tags in YAML frontmatter. It’s possible to match those, too, but it will complicate the search.
- Will match things like URL fragments (
https://example.com/page#part) if they are the same as the tag. It’s possible to avoid this with a more complicated search, but. It worth if it it doesn’t happen often. - It will be slower (tho Obsidian searches pretty quickly so this may not matter).
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Alternate title for forum search: “Sesrxh only parent tag of nested tag”