Extracting categories of paragraphs from a bunch of notes

[holroy]

If you’ve got multiple blockId’s being the same as you’re suggesting you’ll only be able to link to one of them. And dataview aren’t able to extract that text without reading the contents of the files.

If you however use inline fields, the goal of yours could be achieved rather easily. See post below for the same kind of idea, but with slightly different keywords.

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…

If you just wanted to list either category you could do this query:

```dataview
LIST aInsight
WHERE insight
FLATTEN insight as aInsight
```

Given markup like: [insight:: Dataview is a powerful query tool].