Obsidian Smart Search

This is a smart search plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md).

This project uses TypeScript to provide type checking and documentation. The repo depends on the latest plugin API (obsidian.d.ts) in TypeScript Definition format, which contains TSDoc comments describing what it does.

This sample plugin demonstrates some of the basic functionality the plugin API can do.

Adds a ribbon icon, which shows a Notice when clicked.
Adds a command "Open Sample Modal" which opens a Modal.
Adds a plugin setting tab to the settings page.
Registers a global click event and output 'click' to the console.
Registers a global interval which logs 'setInterval' to the console.

Features:

Allows you to search your notes using natural language (no need for AI. Your vault remains private.)

Next features (roadmap):

ALlows you to exclude specific files, folders, or tags from the search.
Allows you to only search within a specific folder or tag

Logic

Search function priortizes exact matches in titles and note content. Then, it will search based on NLP.

Search the TITLE . (exact match)
then search exact match in file
NLP in Title
NLP in File Content

Releasing new releases

Update your manifest.json with your new version number, such as 1.0.1, and the minimum Obsidian version required for your latest release.
Update your versions.json file with "new-plugin-version": "minimum-obsidian-version" so older versions of Obsidian can download an older version of your plugin that's compatible.
Create new GitHub release using your new version number as the "Tag version". Use the exact version number, don't include a prefix v. See here for an example: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-smart-search/releases
Upload the files manifest.json, main.js, styles.css as binary attachments. Note: The manifest.json file must be in two places, first the root path of your repository and also in the release.
Publish the release.

You can simplify the version bump process by running npm version patch, npm version minor or npm version major after updating minAppVersion manually in manifest.json. The command will bump version in manifest.json and package.json, and add the entry for the new version to versions.json

Adding your plugin to the community plugin list

Check the plugin guidelines.
Publish an initial version.
Make sure you have a README.md file in the root of your repo.
Make a pull request at https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases to add your plugin.

How to use

Clone this repo.
Make sure your NodeJS is at least v16 (node --version).
npm i or yarn to install dependencies.
npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.

Manually installing the plugin

Copy over main.js, styles.css, manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/your-plugin-id/.

Improve code quality with eslint (optional)

ESLint is a tool that analyzes your code to quickly find problems. You can run ESLint against your plugin to find common bugs and ways to improve your code.
To use eslint with this project, make sure to install eslint from terminal:
- npm install -g eslint
To use eslint to analyze this project use this command:
- eslint main.ts
- eslint will then create a report with suggestions for code improvement by file and line number.
If your source code is in a folder, such as src, you can use eslint with this command to analyze all files in that folder:
- eslint .\src\

Funding URL

You can include funding URLs where people who use your plugin can financially support it.

The simple way is to set the fundingUrl field to your link in your manifest.json file:

{
    "fundingUrl": "https://buymeacoffee.com"
}

If you have multiple URLs, you can also do:

{
    "fundingUrl": {
        "Buy Me a Coffee": "https://buymeacoffee.com",
        "GitHub Sponsor": "https://github.com/sponsors",
        "Patreon": "https://www.patreon.com/"
    }
}

API Documentation

See https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-api

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