Transclusion/Embedding for Searches

The Archive (The Archive (macOS) • Zettelkasten Method) takes this to the next level (or maybe the zero-th level?). Links and searches are exactly the same thing. Anything you surround in double brackets becomes a clickable search, and the top (most recent) result becomes the active page. The others, if any, are visible in the left sidebar.

This behavior contains the standard idea of a link. If you put the exact name of a note in brackets, it will link only to that note. But you can also search any topic, or something like daily notes from may 2021, or all kinds of other stuff.

I would absolutely love to be able to tell Obsidian to do this with my links.

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I don’t like it. I’d rather keep a link as a link and a search as a search.

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