Global search for blocks with multiple keywords

[octavius]

Hope this gif could illustrate what I mean.

The keypoint for a note taking software is how they consider the basic component. For Roam liked Apps, such as Roam, Dynalist, Workflowy, it is Bullet, which also called Block. For Obsidian, I think originally it is a File.

According to many user’s requirements, now Obsidian provides Block reference, so if Obsidian wants to change the basic componet from File to Block, then there is still a long way to go, Block reference is not the end point. Or because the limitation of Obsidian’s infrastructure, maybe the File still is the basic componet, which means Roam will not be it’s competitor. Unfortunately, many people still compare Obsidian with Roam.

As a free user who take advantages from Obsidian, I just hope a feature request could give dev team more information to consider their goal for a better notetaking app.

As I said before, if someone, especially someone from Obsidian team feels offensive because my tone, I didn’t mean it. I consider it is a contribution that posting some ideas to the forum.

Seems the gif cannot display correctly. Post 4 pictures here, hope it could help:

[malecjan]

nice illustration, explains itself.

[nadavspi]

+1 on this. I missed this and created a duplicate thread (Search for lines matching query), but I like the additional scope defined here.

[afokapu]

+1 on this idea as wellll

[nadavspi]

It’d be great to be able to search for lines matching search terms rather than entire documents.

E.g., searching for Licat "- [ ]" would return:

// SomeFile.md
- [ ] Ask Licat about search per line

but would not return:

// SomeOtherFile.md
Licat said something
- [ ] Some unrelated TODO

This could have many uses, but personally for me it’d enable a TODO flow described here: How do you handle tasks in Obsidian?

[tgrosinger]

Yes, please. This would be huge with the embedded search results.

I think you could then write a query that shows you incomplete tasks from the past X days and put that in your daily note template.

[GreenChocho]

I have also requested for this. Would you like to add your support here too?

Global search for blocks with multiple keywords

Use case or problem Currently, obsidian only allow to search for multiple terms within a note. I would like to the ability to do a global search and return the result only if those term are in the same line or under the same heading. Implementing global search for term A and term B: Only return the search result if term A and term B are in the same line/block or Only return the search result if term A and term B are under the same heading Proposed solution The search box can have options …

[WhiteNoise]

A line: operator will be introduced in an upcoming release.

[WhiteNoise]

If there are duplicate request, just flag them to the mods. No need to ask people to add their support and create duplications.

[GreenChocho]

Will do.

[WhiteNoise]

section: and block: will be added too.

[octavius]

That would be great! can’t wait.

[mrkuramoto]

As Nick Milos says, there are a lot of Roam Users that are closer to Obsidian and I’m one of them.
The only “but” to migrate to Obsidian is the search funcionality.
Roam Research, when a hyperlink is selected, the return is clean, only returning the blocks with the hyperlink or TAG (for Roam, there is no difference).

Obsidian returns the same content but not only the blocks with the hyperlink but sometimes the upper block and the following block. This is very annoying and makes more difficult to find what we are looking for.

Roam returns only the the blocks that has the information. That’s all

Obsidian the blocks and something else - poluted

I’m trying to find a way to make Obsidian returns only the blocks with the information - if someone knows how to do that, please help me.

[jokysatria]

The devs have reworked backlink in 0.12.0.

@Licat

Search and backlink results has been significantly reworked:

• Search results are now always expanded, instead of showing “… and x more matches”.
• “Show more context” will now show the markdown block, instead of a fixed number of lines before and after the match.
• There are now buttons to expand individual search results to see even more context.
• Hover preview on search results will now scroll the highlighted region to the center rather than being clipped at the top.

[MrJazzLicks]

Any idea how I can use “Show more context” in an embedded search?

Hope I’m not getting off topic.

For example I type in the editor:

```query
line:("- [ ]" #urgent)
```

This is to return only tasks that have the tag on the same line.

But the issue is that Obsidian returns results for both the "- [ ]" and for the #urgent part. I was hoping it might be possible to show one block of text for each line.