There have been many requests for the abililty to search within a folder, and the answer is always the same: → you can, just start your query with “path: xxx”.
Yes, you can. And I use that all the time. BUT it is much simpler sometimes to just right-click on a folder and select “search here”. It could still open the same search functionality but maybe it could auto write-in the “path” for us.
There are many scenarios where starting a search with “path” isn’t as easy as people make it out to be. So I’m submitting this as a feature request, and hopefully I will not be told that the feature already exists, because it doesn’t, really. There is a way to search within folders, but not this way, which would be very useful in many circumstances.
I know that you can search and use the Path: command to search a particular folder. I would love to be able to quickly search a folder with a right-click command. It would be quicker and easier than trying to drill down to the right folder with the Path: command.
I have a really simple plugin for this if anyone’s interested: search-from-directory It’s probably too small to add it to the Obsidian plugin gallery but maybe enough people are interested.
ADD IT! That’s a useful feature that people should have easy access to. There are already small plugins in the directory (for example Prominent Starred Files).