What I’m trying to do
Have a simple string search experience that includes bold, italic, and wikilink symbols such that they’re considered “irrelevant”. Search term poseidon li would return both [[poseidon]] link, and poseidon link.
Things I have tried
I’ve found /search ter (regex) to successfully return search term which allows me to search like VSCodes default string matching. The problem with this, is that is if I have [[link]] is and search for /link i it won’t return, because of the ]]. Alternatively, searching for link is that matches link OR is returns correctly, but also an overabundance of other notes that contain the word link and the word is. So it gets lost…
I could regex out all symbols such as ** or __ (bold), * (italic), [[ or ]] wikilink each time, but that for me would not be a great experience. What search algorithm does Obsidian use? I would love it to successfully retrieve results even if they’re bold, italicised, or wikilinked. Is it possible to achieve this?
Ideally this first search returns both. I know I can remove the regex, and have it “match” both words, but in my actual vault with lots of files instead of this test vault, it becomes useless and impossible to find string combinations like so. The “exact” searching doesn’t work either, because, well, it needs to be exact.
Ideally returns both:
The below does match both, but in my real vault there would hundreds of files containing both “word” and “word”, thus the search is almost redundant in this mode.
Realistically, I just want a simple string searcher that includes (or excludes) symbols such that I can search for “poseidon li” and have both results returned. This is where I think maybe I am doing something wrong? How might one achieve this?
