What I’m trying to do
My goal is to be able to just type some keywords so that the note that I’m thinking of pops up. Where do I want to be able to do just that? Inside the double square brackets!
Now, the thing is that Obsidian allows me to use a variety of search fields and sub-windows within its program to find a note. For example the search (Ctrl+Shift+F) or Quick Switcher (Ctrl+O). What I actually want to do is obviously not only to find a note, but also to USE a note, which means that I want to link & display the note inside the one I’m working on. So I want to use the double square brackets and I want to make it very easy for me. The situation is the following: When I type “[[ ]]” a list appears with all the notes whose names correspond to the words I type inside these brackets. But this feature of “search” so to say has the same issue as the features I’ve mentioned above: They can only find notes based on their names. As I said before, I want to make it very easy for me to use ther notes for internal linking. In other words: I don’t want to have to remember the name of the note! I use sort of a nomenclature for my notes so I don’t have to bother naming them. Now I’m looking for a way to either change Obsidian’s search function (which I imagine is complicated or impossible) or to create a pool of keywords somewhere within my notes that can somehow be captured by the square bracket “search” function.
Things I have tried
Aliases: I am actually able to type an alias of a note inside the double square brackets and the note shows up, but I can not just dump a bunch of aliases one after the other. It seems to work only with one alias at the time. That leads to the problem that the bracket-preview shows me a list of 30 notes. Still too complicated. (I also believe that I am misusing the actual purpose of the alias function.)
Tags: The possibilities that tags offer me are limited because spaces cannot be used. Above all, the square brackets cannot give me any suggestions as soon as I type “#”.
That leaves me with … ?
How do I manage my Obsidian-notes so that I can just type two open brackets and then bunch of keywords I remember from the note I have in mind and after a while hit enter, when only one or two notes are left in the preview?
I hope I can get help from a few experts here, that would make me very happy and would certainly also help some other people who, like me, want to set up a workflow that suits us lazy people. Maybe I’m overlooking a function that is actually obvious - that could also be the case.
Best regards and thank you in advance
Luram