bgrishin / obsidian-transliteration-search

A plugin to search files with transliteration

Obsidian Another Quick Switcher Plugin

This is an Obsidian plugin which is another choice of Quick switcher.

• It can create custom search commands (Custom searches)
• It allows you to customize the hotkeys in the quick switcher to your preference
• It can search backlinks and move them without leaving from a keyboard (Backlink search)
• It can move a file to another folder (Move file to another folder)
• It can search regardless of the appearance order of tokens
• It does not search very fuzzy (e.g. searching for 201 doesn't match 2.01)
• Search with different keyboard layouts (like transliteration or forgot-to-switch-layout), supports layouts usually used in countries: 🇺🇦,🇵🇱,🇩🇪,🇲🇩,🇷🇴,🇫🇷,🇹🇷,🇵🇹,🇪🇸,🇮🇹. For users from Ukraine, this will be a good update.
• It can search to consider prefix emoji
• It shows file names and directory names separately

⏬ Install

You can download from Community plugins in Obsidian settings.

⌨️Features

1. Custom searches

Custom searches enables you to create your original search commands.

Search target

Name	Description
markdown	All markdown files
backlink	Markdown files in backlinks on the current file
link	Markdown files in outgoing links on the current file

Sort priorities

You can use the following names as a Sort priorities.

Name	Description	Since
Perfect word match	A query matches perfectly with a word in the file name	6.0.0
Prefix name match	The file name or alias starts with a query	6.0.0
Name match	The file name or alias includes a query	6.0.0
Tag match	The tag name in the file includes a query	6.0.0
Header match	The header name in the file includes a query	6.0.0
Link match	The internal link name in the file includes a query	6.0.0
Length	Length of the file name or alias	6.0.0
Last opened	The time the file opened last	6.0.0
Last modified	The time the file modified last	6.0.0
Star	The file has a star	6.0.0
Alphabetical	File name or alias order by alphabetically ascend	6.2.0
Alphabetical reverse	File name or alias order by alphabetically descend	7.0.0
Created latest	File creation date from the latest to the earliest	7.0.0
Created earliest	File creation date from the earliest to the latest	7.0.0
(Tags split by comma)	The file has specific tags	7.0.0
(Extensions split by comma)	The file has specific extensions	8.3.0

Warning Please don't forget to click the Save button before you close Obsidian. Otherwise, the settings will never restore when you open Obsidian next time.

Note Examples of (Tags spit by comma) are #hoge, #hoge,#huga, and so on.

Note Examples of (Extensions spit by comma) are .md, .md,.canvas, and so on.

Preset search commands

Recent search

File name search

Landmark search

Star search

Backlink search

Note

Queries enclosed in double quotes are searched as is

• "ho ge" only matches ho ge not hoge
• ho ge matches both ho ge and hoge

A minus sign at the beginning excludes the matched candidates

Ex: If there are three files.

• hoge.md
• hoge
• mdhoge

hoge -md suggests only hoge.

2. Header floating search in file / Header search in file

• Show all headers even after filtering to retain file structures in the brain
• Jump to the first hit suggestion automatically and move next/previous by Tab/Shift+Tab as default
• Queries enclosed in double quotes are searched as is
  • "ho ge" only matches ho ge not hoge
  • ho ge matches both ho ge and hoge

3. Grep

This feature requires ripgrep and set the executable command to "Ripgrep command" option.

Default hotkeys

• TAB: Search (not realtime)
• Ctrl+,: preview

Note

• Input regards as a regex pattern

4. Customizable hotkeys

Detailed hotkeys customization is available for each dialog.

5. Show backlinks from the dialog

You can show the backlinks about the suggestion in the dialog. (Default hotkey is Mod h)

It can show backlinks from not only existing notes but also phantom(not existing) notes.

6. Navigate outgoing/backlinks without leaving the dialog

You can navigate outgoing/backlinks without leaving the dialog by using the "show links", "show backlinks", "navigate forward", and "navigate back" commands.

7. Preview

You can preview the file without closing the dialog. It shows a floating view that doesn't distract the contents. Additionally, it makes the editor state before opening the dialog after previewing files and closing the dialog.

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For users who use earlier than v8.0.0

Please read a "🔥 Breaking changes" section in the Release note.

For users who use earlier than v7.0.0

Please read a "🔥 Breaking changes" section in the Release note.

For users who use earlier than v6.0.0

Please read a "🔥 Breaking changes" section in the Release note.

📱 Mobile support

It both supports desktop and mobile.

Feature requests / Bugs

Please create a new issue.

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🖥️ For developers / contributors

Development

Task is required.

task init
task dev

Release

# Stable
task release VERSION=1.2.3

# Beta
task release VERSION=1.2.3-beta1