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The quick switcher opens notes by name, the Search view finds them by content, and Bases answer questions about dates, links and properties. Here's how to use each one, including the operators that don't exist.
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You don't need to start over. Measure how well search works today, then fix what you actually search for, one layer at a time, 15 minutes a day.
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Folders by type, an archive for what's done, links, Maps of Content and a daily-note timeline make "roughly when" or "something related" enough to find a note. Plus the checklist I run when I capture something.
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File Recovery, Sync history and git bring back what you deleted. The Obsidian CLI gives scripts and AI agents Obsidian's own index. And when search misses a note you know exists, six checks, in order, find the cause.
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The quick switcher opens notes by name, the Search view finds them by content, and Bases answer questions about dates, links and properties. Here's how to use each one, including the operators that don't exist.
search
You don't need to start over. Measure how well search works today, then fix what you actually search for, one layer at a time, 15 minutes a day.
search
Folders by type, an archive for what's done, links, Maps of Content and a daily-note timeline make "roughly when" or "something related" enough to find a note. Plus the checklist I run when I capture something.
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Findability is decided when you write a note. Explicit titles, aliases, a note type, a few properties and separate tag families do more for search than any plugin.
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Six Obsidian search tips, from the least effort to the most, and the book behind them.
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People navigate first and search as a last resort, and they re-find notes through the cues they stored when they wrote them. Here's the research behind that, and the three models I use to design a findable vault.
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My new ebook on finding any note in Obsidian is out. All of its text is free on this blog over the next two and a half weeks; the book gives you all of it today, in one book, with a foreword, exercises, a merged FAQ and a cheat sheet appendix.
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Most searches in your vault are re-finding searches; you wrote the note, now you want it back. This overview tells you which tool to reach for, compares them all, and points to the 12 parts that go deep. Based on a 30,000-note vault.
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Properties are the difference between a pile of Markdown files and a knowledge system you can query. In this article, I explain how to use Obsidian properties from your very first field to a full schema powering dashboards, Kanban boards, and AI agents across 20,000 notes.
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Obsidian Bases turn notes you already have into live dashboards from their properties - no spreadsheets, no data entry. A Base is a lens, only as sharp as the metadata underneath. Here's how I run it over 20,000 notes.
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The must-have Obsidian plugins for 2026 - Dataview, Dataview Serializer, Templater, QuickAdd, TaskNotes, Tasks, Omnisearch, and Excalidraw, plus 75+ more I use daily.
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