How to mark sections within an obsidian note?

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I’m a medical student and I use obsidian basically as I would MS Word. I have gigantic notes such as “pathology”, “anatomy”, “physiology” etc which have sections and subsections (kidney physiology, RAAS etc).

When I take a new course I tend to only update existing sections that the course touch upon. I would like to find a way to identify- and search for these specific sections prior to the end-of-term exams.

For instance, let’s say there are 200 sections on our “pathology” notes, but we need to mark the sections ##IBDs and ##Glomerulal diseases with an identifier like “Clinical medicine 1” to let me know these sections are part of the current course and that I need to study them in detail ahead of the exams.

Is there a way of doing this? I thought of using tags, but these only seem to apply to entire notes, not to sections/subsections within them.

Please note that something like the ##IBD section would itself contain subsections (###Crohns disease, ###Ulcerous colitis, ###treatment protocols) which themselves will contain subsections, multiple paragraphs etc.

Please note:

I really don’t care how Obsidian is “supposed to be used”. The purpose of notetaking apps is to support my style of notetaking, not the other way around.

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Perhaps your use case can take advantage of section links or block links? For example, you could create a note for your Clinical medicine 1 class and then link to sections in your pathology note like [[pathology##IBDs]]. When you click the link it will bring you right to that section. You can also create a return link with [[Clinical medicine 1]] in you pathology note so there’s a visual that this section is important for that class.

I agree that tags would be difficult to use unless you could create a dataview that collections all the sections into one place.

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