Use case or problem It seems that we cannot search for links in Obsidian. In other words, we can’t search for all files that link to a particular file. For instance we can’t create a graph view or do a regular search that shows what links to all files in a given path. If I’m a project manager and w…

This will get you all the links. It will only match the file name. (?<=\[\[).*?(?=(?:\]\]|#|\|))

Use case or problem I would like to be able to search all backlinks for the selected file and combine it with a filter for example by tag or other parameters Proposed solution add backlink parameter to specify a search backlink Current workaround (optional) I don’t know how to achieve it

Alternative would be filtering directly in backlink pane, requested as part of Filtering Everywhere! But having the option available in search has use cases too. Desired in: Obsidian url scheme Embedded searches, with ability to reference containing note without breaking the search when the file…

[image] malecjan: AFAIK, Embedded search is the only place where it makes sense to speak about “backlink:”, otherwise it is going to be just “link:”. E.g. “link:(file name)” as a convenience to match all links to corresponding file But you can also have unlinked mentions and this way it will …

I was just about to create another feature request Orpan Search Query and realized that this standing request could probably accommodate that use case if it was implemented. (Atomic requests are more manageable, so let me know if this seems like it should be it’s own feature request.) Orpan Search …

I agree with the original proposal and just wanted to give a particular example. Use Case: If I’d want to find all Leetcode problems (tagged with: #leetcode/problem), which also have links to [[Stack]]. Similar things can be accomplished with the DataView plugin, but it’s not as dynamic as it would…

+1 seems very valuable As a search operator it would allow booleans (find all notes that are linked from one note, but not from another, or linked from multiple notes), filter in the graph view, and create very useful organization as an embedded search query. What about “incoming:”, “outgoing:” as…

+1. I think “incoming” and “outgoing” are simple search operators here. This would make it significantly easier to find files that have multiple links. Lets say I had two MOCs, one for a company I work for (i.e, Disney), and one for projects. With this functionality, it’d be simple to do outgoing…

+1 Combining several links and combining links and tags in the obsidian search would be invaluable. Otherwise tags remain a lot more useful for working with notes. Links, however, are great for Graphs and I don’t want to lose that functionality. Am I right though that the Dataview plugin already i…

Search Operators for LINKS (backlinks, forwardlinks)

Feature requests

PhucLe May 14, 2021, 10:01am 16

+1 for this.
A link search operator would also enable to search for all links with a special character (i.e mark transient notes not yet created with [[~ a special character to put in the writing inbox]]).

Search or dataview all links start with or contain a special character