Obsidian is adding block references to its tool in the latest build v0.9.5.. Thanks to Neil for pointing it out as a follow-up to a conversation we had last month on what block references are and how they’re useful. I’m on build v0.9.3 so will have to wait a bit, but Neil’s pointer also led me to read the release note of earlier intermediate releases, such as the version I am currently using.
That in turn made me discover new functionality I wasn’t aware of, but that does cater to something I encountered in my own use of Obsidian: if you search, you can grab the entire search results as a list of links to the notes that contain the search term, and have that as a note. That is very useful to me (would be even greater if I could populate a note with search results dynamically).
Thank you for your blog. I’ve really enjoyed reading your thoughts on using Obsidian. You mentioned in this post that you would like a way to populate a note with search results dynamically. This is possible with embedded search queries. You can read about it in the Obsidian User Guide here, https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Search#Embed+search+results
Thank you John, that’s very useful! I also started using the Dataview plugin, which allows me to automatically list items based on e.g. date of last modification.