When I search for a keyword in Obsidian, do I only get notes with that keyword in the note content, but not notes with that keyword in the note name?
My language is Chinese.
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In 0.8 we added filename search.
Thanks for you reply. The am using the v0.8.0 of Obsidian, however, I still can not search the filename.
When I want to search a file named āē¬č®°ęØ”ęæā,
but I can not obtain the file in the search list.
Please checkout the docs and the changelog.
I have to say that needing to use āfile:ā to search filenames is not usefulā¦
I donāt keep track of what the filenames are - Iām simply doing a search that will hopefully find the term wherever applicable.
I can see how using āfile:ā would be good to ONLY search in filenames, but I canāt think of any use case for not wanting to include them in a general search. This is how any search in existence works - be it Windows or any search utility. By default (if contents are indexed) it will include contents and filenames in the search, but you flag the filename if thatās all you want to look for.
Can some sort of amendment be made to reflect this?
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On further thought, in addition to the āfile:ā operator, I think a ācontent:ā operator would be useful as well - allowing you to specify which type of search you want to do. But the default does both.
Here is a screenshot from OneNote - it separates Title Results from Content Results. This might be a particularly good solution to this problem. I have a couple thousand notes that Iāve imported from Onenote and not having this makes it extremely hard to tidy them up and use.
@nickchomey This is not a bug per se but a feature request. So search\open in feature request.
Indeed, just discovered this frustrating behavior and completely agree with you on this. Whatās the benefit of omitting filenames from search results when I (and guess many other people) intentionally try my best to give my notes very meaningful names?
I suggest this behavior to be changed to previous behavior or be re-enabled either by default or via settings.
@zhixiangcai, would you move this thread to Bug Reports or to Feature Requests please?
This post is now in the graveyard. I already created a Feature Request here for filenames in search results by default