Quick switcher search order change (sequential vs. non-sequential)?

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What I’m trying to do

I frequently use Quick Switcher to open files. My recollection is that I’ve been able to search for files in the past using non-sequential characters. For instance, results would show a file titled 2026.10.26 Obsidian Post by typing either:

2026 obsidian
obsidian 2026

However, after the last update, results only show files where the characters are sequential. In the above cases:

2026 obsidian — file included in results
obsidian 2026 — file not included in results

I would like to be able to use either sequential or non-sequential characters for results.

Things I have tried

I’ve looked at the Quick Switcher settings, but can’t find a setting that determines this behavior.

I’ve searched this forum and Reddit to see if anyone else is reporting these results.

It’s possible I am misremembering how I was using quick switcher in the past, but I don’t think that’s the case.

I’m on 1.14.5 and using Dataview, Minimal Theme Settings, Tag Wrangler, and Templater community plugins.

Is it possible to use either sequential or non-sequential characters to search for files in Quick Switcher?

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I started this comment intending to say: You may be misremembering.

I’ve long named (and even renamed) files to match the word sequence of my search tendencies, otherwise they wouldn’t show up in Quick switcher.

But at least one person had the same experience as you, today: Remove strict word order requirement in Quick Switcher and Link Suggestions - #24 by mlte. Maybe it has to do with switching from a much older installer to the latest? Or OS-specific or something like that?

I don’t have a workaround for you other than to support the feature request. Hopefully someone who knows the file-switcher plugins can recommend one that does it.

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Thank you!

I’m almost certain that it worked this way for me until quite recently as it’s added quite a bit of frustration into my workflow. Now that I know about it, I can at least attempt to type around it.

I appreciate being directed to the feature request thread!

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Is anyone aware of a plugin that does this? It turns out I relied on non-sequential / non-strict word order searching quite a bit. The ‘new’ search that forces sequential word order is pulling up very old files and missing the file I’m actually searching for.