How to show filtered view of linked mentions in the body of a note

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What I’m trying to do

I’m currently using the Shimmering Obsidian Alfred Workflow to populate a logfile which lists various updates on projects I’m working on. Each line is a date/time stamp followed by an update with an internal link to a project page, something like:

6 Jan 2026 / 16:00:44: Did X on [[Project name]]

By default, these show up in the ‘Linked mentions’ on the project page, which is great. I can expand the context and see each update. The problem is it also displays other other Linked mentions. Is there a way to show a filtered view of the Linked mentions without having to use the search function each time?

Things I have tried

I’ve looked into Dataview using the file.inlinks function but it doesn’t show the body of the note.

I’ve looked into embedding notes using ![[]] syntax with blocks but I can’t add the links and the block IDs manually as it defeats the point.

While writing this, I have actually managed to get something working using embedded searches and templater, where the search query is:

```query
file:"Logfile"
line:"<%tp.file.title%>"
```

it’s taken some tweaking with CSS snippets to get it looking how I’d like it, but I’m still not sure it’s the best solution.

How would more advanced Obsidian users approach this problem?

Thanks in advance.

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If you’re willing to change your log entries to a list with inline properties, then you can display the linked log entries in their full context, excluding non-log links.

This format also enables more powerful queries, if you’re interested, such as by dates, times, any keywords you want to pre-define or search for on the fly, additional links such as people notes, tags, etc.

Here’s a quick example:

Dataview query of a log file
Dataview query of a log file1919×882 60.7 KB

Paste this into a new note named “example logfile”:

- (logDate::1 Jan 2021) (logTime::16:00:44) Did something on [[Project A]]
- (logDate::24 Apr 2024) (logTime::16:00:44) Did whatever on [[Project A]]
- (logDate::15 May 2025) (logTime::16:00:44) Did stuff on [[Project B]]
- (logDate::15 May 2025) (logTime::16:00:44) Added things on [[Project A]]

Then paste this into a new note named “Project A”:

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID regexreplace(a.text, "\(.*::.*\)\s*", "") AS "Activity", a.logDate AS "Date", a.logTime AS "Time"
FROM "example logfile"
FLATTEN filter(file.lists, (l) => l.logDate AND contains(l.outlinks, this.file.link)) AS a
```

And paste the same Dataview query into a note named “Project B”.