Quick switcher output should match wiki link popup format to reduce visual noise

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

When using the quick switcher to find files in folders the output is extremely “noisy” because it includes the entire path in the name. This introduces significant friction when trying to move quickly between notes.

Example:

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Proposed solution

Make the quick switcher output match the output of the link popup.

Example:

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Current workaround (optional)

No workaround, just tedious reading of all the visual noise trying to find the note.

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Another reason this is important is because plugins are also forced to develop their own search functions, which further fractures the search experience across the platform.

See: New Plugin: Journey - Find the story between your notes - #91 by davecan

Edit: This request has evolved into a request for a unified search API as a platform-level capability: Establish a unified search API as a platform-level service

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Use case or problem

When the user open the quick switcher prompt (with ctrl+o by default), they are presented with the paths of each note :

  • It’s confusing, we probably care more about title than path
  • It’s weird that aliases are presented with alias name and not the path, it’s not very consistent

Proposed solution

I propose to do something similar than the completion system of internals links (when we type [[ and obsidian show files that correspond)
Each entries with :

  • Note title or alias shown in big
  • Path as a subtitle
  • An alias icon if the entry is an alias