Putting all one color Highlights in one new note

[Isa_Syd]

Hello everybody,

I´m new to obsidian and just starting my workflow. I use Obsidian mostly for literature notes and one thing that I´m missing is the possibility to automatically bring all highlights of one color to a Note (which only includes those highlights at the end)
For example: I highlight all research gaps in one color and want them all collected in one new note (with a link so i can find where the highlight came from) so I can easily find all identified research gaps through my hole literature.

Does anyone know how I can do that?

[ariehen]

Can you show an example or two (in a fenced code block using three backticks) of how you are highlighting things in your notes?

Knowing that may give folks an idea of what direction to point you in.

[Isa_Syd]

Thank for the notice.

I use the Highlightr Plugin and my marks look like this:

<mark style="background: #FFF3A3A6;">example</mark>

I hope that helps.

[holroy]

My preferred way to higlight using Dataview is shown in the thread below:

Requesting tips on how to leave actionable notes for myself

I see you’ve chosen a solution already, but I would still like to offer an alternative way which I tend to use every now and then, and that is to defined a field with a follow up question for myself. So I’d typically write something like: Useful stuff referenced from what the presenter actually said. [question:: Can I use this in [[data portal]]]. More stuff from the presenter... If you combine this with this query: ```dataview TABLE question WHERE question ``` You could get this output: …

The idea is simply to do stuff like [question:: My question on highlighting], and then use CSS to style it like you want, and queries to list them from other places.

[Isa_Syd]

Thank´s @holroy that helped.

With a little bit of help I figured something out that is exactly what I was looking for:

for (let page of dv.pages('"Inbox"')) {
	const lists = page.file.lists
	if (lists.length === 0) continue
	const list = lists.values
		.filter(li => !!li.Annotation
			&& li.Annotation.contains('hltr-green'))
		.map(li => li.Annotation)
	if (list.length === 0) continue
	dv.header(3, page.file.link)
	dv.list(list)
}

Works for different kinds of searches.
I have now three notes with this code-block and changed Highliter Colors, so I have for example all Definitions, all Research gaps and all my open questions in all my Literature (collected in my Inbox) collected in seperate Notes.