Another vote for sensible search ranking. The current way Obsidian filters / sorts search results is quite frustrating!
I’m including my post to the Reddit forum here.
—
Hello,
I’m really enjoying Obsidian! I’ve spent the last two weeks consolidating 15 years and half a dozen applications worth of writing into one, sensible, well organised set of notes. Such a relief! 
The one thing that I’m quite frustrated by is Obsidian’s search. I’m baffled by the fact that it allows you to sort search results by everything except relevance. For example I have a page called “X3” in a folder called “Wiki” (my default home for new notes):
- if I search for “x3” it shows up as the very last result (fair enough I had results organised alphabetically).
- if I search for “title: x3” (or "title: X3) it doesn’t show up at all.
- if I search for “path: x3” it’s the only result.
All the other note applications I’ve used over the years use relevance as the primary way to sort search results. I’d expect that if there’s a note called “X3” that it would be the top result of a search for “X3”.
I feel like I must be missing something? Am I doing something wrong? If this is just the way Obsidian works, is there a way to add relevance based search?
Many thanks for any pointers,
Adam.