I have a minimal but growing amount of folders that divide up my vault. If I have some larger, completely different area, I may be tempted to offload it to a separate vault (especially if it entails large tables that are difficult to index).
In the meantime, I’ve taken to create Area Dashboards, where there is a button to create notes for that area or space and a dataview(js) table that lists formerly added notes belonging to that space or area (depending how one wants to call it).
I brought up the term ‘space’ because in the publicly available demo vault, SoRobby calls it spaces:
There are already more than a half dozen example spaces leveraging Buttons and Dataview plugins.
Mind you, Buttons is now superseded by the Meta Bind plugin’s button functionality. So you may need to create your own buttons, if you need them.
If the DataviewJs table has many dozens of results, in Reading Mode (my forced viewing mode for my sub-dashboards), you can search your page content again.
- Force Note View Mode is another external plugin - it can help dashboard files to be in Reading Mode always. I assume this plugin will not break anytime soon. You can use it safely.
Mind you, in the demo vault, the files are queried per folder, but if you insist on a flat structure, you can query by tags and have the same dashboard pages, where you can further peruse your files with CTRL+F.
And of course, you can use the Search core plugin.
With regex, you can query for ranges, such as: /start.*?end/, which will find…
- Starting today, I’m beginning to see the end.
- It’s a good start, but we’re still far from the end, buddy.
- etc.
You can exchange start and end with your search terms, and look more deeply into what regex can offer.