How can I search for notes using the built-in search plugin, which supports regex, to search for notes that have no entry in specific keys within the frontmatter?
I am using templater and thus am using my frontmatter looks like this:
---
aliases:
publish: false
tag:
---
%%
date:: [[2023-07-11 Tue]]
parent:: [[XYZ]]
%%
Searching for "parent:: " works fine, but I want to find notes that do not have a parent note yet. For this I tried parent:: /$ as indicated here and here, but this and other variations like parent:: /\$/ do not yield any results.
Where am i going wrong?
4 Comments
Luxbux84@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
I don't think the built-in search has this capability, but you can try this dataview query:
laurelinae@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Works like a charm! I didn't know that I could query not just from tags but from any YAML key. Thank you!
nietscape@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 3y
If you're using regex I'm assuming you know of utilities like Regex 101 to check your syntax.
With JS-styled regex the entire statement is enclosed in slashes.
/parent:: $/should have the desired effect here.I second DataView for these kinds of tasks as the plugin revolves around YAML frontmatter. I have a utility note called "notes with cleanable metadata" that has a bunch of these DataView queries that update in real time.
Good luck!
laurelinae@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Works perfectly! I thought I could start the regex in the middle of my text query. In hindsight, that of course makes no sense. Thank you!