Use case or problem
Basically, I’d like to use tag: for section: .
For example, I have the following .md files:
test_search/test1.md
## test1-heading1 #tag2 #tag3
test1-111111
## test1-heading2
test1-222222
```
#tag2 #tag3
```
test_search/test2.md
## test2-heading1 #tag2
test2-111111
## test2-heading2 #tag2
test2-222222
## test2-heading3 #tag3
test2-333333
test_search/test3.md
## test3 #tag3
test3-333333
My purpose is to search all the sections that contain both two tags, i.e. #tag2 and #tag3.
A naive approach is to use section:(#tag2 #tag3), the result is:
Note that
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It included two results instead of one. The 2nd is in the code block and they are not tags!
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I have turn on the “Explain search term”, it shown that engine was matching text rather than tag.
The obsidian doc says that
Note: Since
tag:ignores matches in code blocks and in non-Markdown content, it’s often faster and more accurate than a normal full-text search for#work.
Thus I tried to nest tag: inside section::
section:((tag: tag2) (tag: tag3))
However it doesn’t work.
The “Explain search term” says
Operator “tag” cannot be nested within “section”.
Ideally, searching should be able to make tag: and section: work together, e.g. supports tag: to be nested within section:.
Thanks.
Proposed solution
Enhance the query language.
Current workaround (optional)
Use the naive approach, i.e. section:(#tag2 #tag3).
