Why Obsidian needs better block support

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@samhbarton

Allow users to create a query on a page for all blocks with #tag name.

• Atm this would be something to do with the plugin dataview, not Obsidian, but it seems like native support for queries is being built as evidenced by the ‘Create dynamic tables using data stored in note properties’ feature listed on the Obsidian roadmap.

This is possible already using the internal query mechanism but your need to do some gymnastics.

@samhbarton

Greater support for block search, showing the complete block rather than just a segment of it.

Here’s the relative feature request

Backlinks and Search - Display Information based on hierarchical document structure (bullet list level or enclosing header breadcrumbs)

When a wikilink is present in a line item of a bullet list, the corresponding entry in the backlinks pane is just that line item, If “show more context” is active, the children are shown. [image] It would be nice to provide more/better context for that line item. In particular, outliner-based products show the parent item too.

If you search the forum you’ll find more scoped FR that cover the block-based workflow. Moved to meta category.