I think though these are two different use cases / FR aren’t they? I want both. Links in frontmatter to “work” and also a search operator to just do native search stuff in front matter. Right?
YAML metadata headers are a useful way to add information to a page. It would be nice to have a clean and efficient way to search them
using Obsidian’s core search features.
Proposed solution
A search operator like key:: (notice the double colon), where “key” is any arbitrary metadata header in your notes’ YAML metadata.
It would be especially useful if this new search operator also applied to the Graph view’s Filters → “Search files…” and Groups → “Enter query…” and showed as one of the search options in the context menu
1+ for this.
Dataview is good, but I’d like to be able to highlight groups in the graph using YAML keys.
That would be FAB, because I use YAML extensively to categorize my content
+1. With the upcoming improvements to properties, this feature would make a lot of sense. I would love to be able to use properties in query blocks and graph view.
+1 Upcoming obsidian properties is great. But the real potential of properties, especially because they are typed (date, time, tags, list etc) will only be realized, once it is possible to search/filter upon them with specific query type for each type like: property(published) < 2010 for values of property published with date type before the year 2010, and so on…