What I’m trying to do
I recently updated a bunch of scholarly article notes to make better use of the new Property mechanics for sorting, searching, and tracking. I have a checkbox/task property called “Downloaded” to record whether I’ve downloaded a PDF of the article yet (along with other Properties like a List property type for “Author(s)”, etc.).
I’d like to be able to search/filter these notes based on whether or not that “Downloaded” task property is true or false, but don’t seem to be able to get results in the search panel checking for a value–only whether a note has the “Downloaded” property at all.
Things I have tried
Using the “All Properties” Panel, I can see I’ve got 96 notes with the “Downloaded” task, and when I click that, the Search panel populates with “[“Downloaded”]” and shows all 96 notes. Further context in each of those notes reveals whether the task is “true” or “null” as expected, however, to actually search “[“Downloaded”:null]” or “[“Downloaded”:true]” yields no results.
By comparison, using the “Author(s)” property that’s also listed on all those same notes, I can search “[“Author(s)”:Nebel]” (where Nebel is an author’s last name) and get 2 of the 96 notes in particular, which is correct.
(These results appear to be the same with or without the inner quotations around the Property name within the brackets.)
This syntax is in keeping with the Obsidian documentation which states:
Use brackets and a colon [property:value] to return files with that property and value:
[aliases:Name] returns files where the aliases property value is Name
[completed:true] returns files where the completed property value is true
Am I just really bad at the search mechanics (plausible haha) or are tasks/checkboxes still a little wonky with the new Properties rollout?
