Useful outliner search/query examples

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Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 21, 2023 at 09:30 AM

Ditto!

Paul Korm wrote:
Features I find very useful
> >* Regular expression searching
>* Type-to-replace highlighted search results (useful in conjunction with
>regex-based search)
>* Search and replace across multiple documents

Posted by Amontillado
Sep 21, 2023 at 11:39 AM

For an interesting implementation of regular expressions, check out the Mellel word processor. Regex’s are built with a point and click interface. A newcomer to regular expressions doesn’t even need to know he’s using them.

Posted by Cyganet
Sep 24, 2023 at 10:18 AM

For me, an ideal query builder helps me to get the query right, but does not require me to write the syntax code myself.

Obsidian’s dataview is particularly bad in this regard, being both complex and poorly documented. It took me two days to get the right syntax for “show me list of people whom I spoke to last week” (given a set of daily notes with links to people notes). The complication was to get the list of names in alphabetical order without duplication, not just regurgitating the lists as entered.

Best practice examples for me are the Microsoft Access query builder or, as analogy, how the Style Settings plugin in Obsidian is a GUI for making changes to CSS.

Posted by Amontillado
Sep 26, 2023 at 09:24 PM

I applaud users and developers alike when there is a meeting at a need.

Obsidian has great promise. That gap between function and documentation, poorly bridged by my noggin, is what keeps me from being a full-fledged fan.

I found a YouTube channel called MyProductivemac with a lot of nice tips about Devonthink. I’ve been using Obsidian as sort of a fleeting notes/to-do list for work, a logbook of sorts, and I kept missing the mark with things like tasks in code blocks.

Devonthink, using labels for to-do, tags for grouping related tasks, and all that other Devonthinky stuff just works for me. It’s either the briar patch I was born for or the front porch I’m fated to defend from a rickety rocking chair with scowl and walking cane.

Posted by Cyganet
Sep 28, 2023 at 08:54 PM

I’ve just found an example Obsidian vault on GitHub that is full of examples of Dataview queries (both the code and the result):

https://github.com/s-blu/obsidian_dataview_example_vault

It’s an amazing effort and a great learning tool.

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