When transcluding a section, include the source page's title in the transclusion display

[dltj]

What I’m trying to do

I want to transclude a specific section from one Obsidian note into another while displaying the source note’s title above the transcluded content.

For example, when given two notes with this structure:

# Daily page for 25-Feb-2025

## Daily notes
- Slept well last night
- Need to remember to pick up the milk

## Notes from National Library Meeting
- Project to begin in March

…and…

# National Library Project

![[Daily page for 25-Feb-2025#Notes from the National Library Meeting]]

…I want it to appear as:

# National Library Project

## 25-Feb-2025 – Notes from National Library Meeting
- Project to begin in March

Things I have tried

There are numerous mentions of the Forum for ways to remove the header of transcluded content, but none to add it back.

I went into Developer Tools to see if something is hidden in the page DOM, and the ![[]] transclusion line is there, but it gets removed from the DOM when there isn’t focus on it. In fact, it shows up as a collapsed <div> in the Elements Inspector with classes cm-active and cm-line, but as soon as I leave focus from the Obsidian page—even to make the developer tools window active to expand the <div>, the <div> element gets yanked out! (Kind of unfortunate that it is removed from the DOM rather than just display:none-d…I would have solved my problem.)

Use Case

I use sections with ## header markers in my Daily Notes page to take notes on meetings that I’m in because that is the page that is most commonly opened in Obsidian. I want to pull all of those sections into a single document that has all notes for a project…that way I can find them either by remembering the day or going to the project page.

(We’ll set aside for the moment that Obsidian’s find-on-page search function doesn’t include transcluded content…that would be really handy, too!)

[Yurcee]

@dltj

I want it to appear as:

# National Library Project

## 25-Feb-2025 – Notes from National Library Meeting

Here you are substituting # with - (spaces on both sides).
This could be done with Dataview(Js). But let’s wait for the DV experts.

Seen something similar in the past (don’t hold me to it):

Using header-based links as a way to mark relationship to the linked note

Marking relationship with a linked note is a powerful feature request made by many people. As in the screenshot below, note A can expand upon note B, while C disproves the same note B. These are different relationships to the same note, but Obsidian treats them equally and by design does not allow user to enter this information anywhere. [image] However, there is a somewhat “sacrificial” way to actually add this feature. However, you need to be willing to rethink your use of linking to specif…

@dltj

Obsidian’s find-on-page search function doesn’t include transcluded content…that would be really handy, too!

There is a Feature Request where you can show support:

Request to have Search display results from notes where a block is embedded

Use case or problem Here is an example of the problem in a sandbox vault [image] Test1 has a line of text. I embed that line in Test2. If I search for the word experiment, only Test1 shows up in the results. Test2 doesn’t show up. When I want to search for two or more words, if one of those words is in an embed, it won’t show up in the search results. [image] (I had to recreate the above in a sandbox, hence the different block id) It would be useful to have Test2 show up in the above …

[dltj]

Oh, Interesting — it hadn’t occurred to me to try to use Dataview to build the combined-notes page. (Probably didn’t think of it because my JavaScript is pretty weak.) Thanks for the suggestion, and I hope to hear from others yet.