What I’m trying to do
Search including parent blocks
For example, I want to search for all the todos related to my [[Personal]] blocks.
Imagine this daily note:
- [[Work]]
- [[Some Project]]
- [ ] Some work-related task
- [[Personal]]
- [ ] Some personal task
When I search for
"- [ ]" [[Personal]]
// or
section:("- [ ]" [[Personal]])
It shows me the pages where I have both - [ ] and [[Personal]], which is not useful because a page like this appears and it doesn’t contain personal todos:
- [[Work]]
- [[Some Project]]
- [ ] Some task
- [[Personal]]
- Other content
When I search for
line:("- [ ]" [[Personal]])
// or
block:("- [ ]" [[Personal]])
It doesn’t bring anything because it doesn’t search the parent blocks.
Search including children
I have a similar problem when I’m searching for blocks with children.
Imagine I want to search for all the tasks where I mention a John.
- [[Work]]
- [[Some Project]]
- [ ] I need to do some task
- [[Marie]] will help me with this
- [[John]] will help me with that
When I search for
"- [ ]" [[John]]
There is no way to get all the task blocks with children blocks mentioning [[John]], even if I use line, section or block.
This type of search was common for me when using LogSeq, and I’d love to do it in Obsidian.