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We really need a better search engine for obsidian notes, the default search is horrendous


In the past I have used Omnisearch which I have found to be an improvement.

https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch


This 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?


Smart Connections allows you to search using embeddings[1].

[1] https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections


What would you like to see? (I work on Obsidian)


He said he’d like to see a better search engine


I was hoping for something more descriptive than “better”


Semantic 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


Fair 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.




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