The problem is that when there are many files in the database, keywords searches become useless. For example, I have articles about ink, and when I search, it will give me useless results as “links” or “backlinks”.
Yes, I tried, but the problem is that the quotes require full occurrence of the word, otherwise there is no result. As for me, this is very inconvenient, since usually everyone searches for the beginning of a word and does not write it completely. Perhaps this is a feature, but as I said, even on this forum in a different way. Maybe I’m just dumb and don’t understand something.
I know, but I think regular expressions are an overcomplicated solution. In my notes, I have very long terms that are easy to mistake. I just want a simple search search like this forum or any other site. I can write “Obsidian Relea” and get the results, but it won’t work with quotes in obsidian app.
With the RegEx “solution”, it can be nice to use \b which just means at the beginning or end of the word.
\bred\b means that red has to be at the start and the end, i.e. the isolated word “red”
\bred means that red only has to be at the start of a word.
red\b means that red only has to be at the end of a word.
\bred\b will find “the red dog” but not the “the redwood tree” and not “covered up”
red\b will find “the red dog” and “covered up” but not “the redwood tree”
\bred will find “the red dog” and “the redwood tree” but not “covered up”
/\bred/ will find any entry with a word starting with the letters: red
This seems a little less complicated than other suggestions that have been made.
The second option works great, thanks. It is easier to write, but still awkward for quick search. I don’t understand why this behavior is not the default. Or at least the same behavior in the with “Quoted strings”.
There is no result in the photo like a passWORD and that’s great. It is also not necessary that the word exactly matches like in “Quoted strings”.
