Show Bookmarked notes only one time in Quick Switcher (same name)

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Steps to reproduce

  1. Bookmark a note
  2. Search for the bookmarked note in the quick switcher

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? Yes

Expected result

The note should appear as a single entry in the quick switcher alongside other possible matches.

Actual result

The note appears twice in the quick switcher results.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.4.16
Installer version: v1.4.13
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Fri Sep 15 13:39:52 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.141.3.700.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 22.6.0
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
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Additional information

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I understand why you don’t like it but. I don’t know if I consider this a bug or a feature improvement.

If I recall the favoriting feature that bookmarks replaced didn’t exhibit this behavior. If that’s true then I’d argue it’s a bug. Also I suspect it behaves contrary to expectations for most users given that in my experience other apps with similar bookmarking features don’t treat the bookmarks as separate entities when searching.

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I’d agree this is a bug; this creates redundancy i.e. clutter in the quick switcher options, which makes me not want to bookmark as many notes.

renamed and moved to feature requests.

Use case or problem

Quick switcher show results with Note name and Bookmark with the same name.
This behavior creates clutter and increases search times.
Quick Switcher - Revolver Ocelot

Proposed solution

Show only Bookmark.

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Modify the Quick Switcher to prioritize or merge identical entries, distinguishing between Notes and Bookmarks to streamline search results.