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We really need a better search engine for obsidian notes, the default search is horrendous
by richard___ 3y ago
We really need a better search engine for obsidian notes, the default search is horrendous
- thethunderbox 3y agoIn the past I have used Omnisearch which I have found to be an improvement. https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoThis is why I don't use Obsidian. Without giving root to an aggregate of random git repos, the most important features are very subpar. I have no idea what I would even do with a fancy star graph or whatever it is, and VS Code has much better search. Edit: Also, why is the search bar for searching all notes so buried, requiring so much effort to open? Is that because it works so poorly?
- wfhBrian 3y agoSmart Connections allows you to search using embeddings[1]. [1] https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections
- kepano 3y agoWhat would you like to see? (I work on Obsidian)
- replwoacause 3y agoHe said he’d like to see a better search engine
- kepano 3y agoI was hoping for something more descriptive than “better”
- replwoacause 3y agoFair enough. The built-in search is terrible, it doesn't respect any of the regex filters you set up to exclude files and folders. I fought with it for almost an hour trying to get it to exclude png images, and anything in a 'media' or 'attachment' folder, and it never worked completely. Then I installed OmniSearch it just worked, instantly.
- richard___ 3y agoSemantic search. The current search feels like it is barely doing something smarter than substring matching / basic regex. The search should be more like Google and less like matching substrings