Subject Note automatically collect all the relevant lines from Daily Note

[wenie]

I use daily notes to record everything, including notes for my reading, information obtained from friends/family, etc. I will have multiple bullet items under each activities line which log the details. I want to have something automatically capture the relevant log (including the “header” line of the bullet items) and consolidate to a separate note.
For example, I had conversation with ABC about point 1, point 2, point 3 on 2023-01-01 and also about point 5 and point 5 on 2023-01-03.

For example

2023-01-01

Logs

I went dinner with ABC at Restaurant 123

• the drumstick very nice
• we talk about future

I read a book XYZ

• thought 1
• thought 2

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2023-02-14

Log

Did exercise today

• duration 1 hr

Celebrated vday with ABC

• we went place 123, it was beautiful

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In a note, named as ABC, will auto-populate all the conversation logs I had with him from the daily notes as below.

2023-01-01
I went dinner with ABC at Restaurant 123

• the drumstick very nice
• we talk about future

2023-02-14
Celebrated vday with ABC

• we went place 123, it was beautiful

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I also prefer to have link to the daily notes shown up as well. I do not wish to use #tag.
I’m a newbie here. Appreciate your help in advance

[CawlinTeffid]

I think #tag may be the only way, unfortunately.

You could use embedded searches like

~~~query
ABC -path:"Daily notes"
~~~

But it won’t pick up the sub-list items. The above example (which assumes your logs are in a folder named “Daily notes” and no other folder has that name) will return

• I went dinner with ABC at Restaurant 123
• Celebrated vday with ABC

And clicking either line will take you to its log entry.

The only way I know to pick up the sub-list items in your example is to add “ABC” to them (doing it as a tag would make the search faster because tags are indexed, but either way will work, or links can work too).