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search notes ignoring markdown marks #2640

Open bigheadghost opened 2 years ago

bigheadghost commented 2 years ago

Please select if your request is either something new or an enhancement

Please select the area your request applies to. (Multiple selections are Possible. You can leave blank if you're not sure.)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Let's say I have a note with text: something **significant**

When I do a full text search "something significant" in all my notes,dendron finds nothing.

I understand that dendron uses vscode to do find in files search. but dendron may supply an option to search only in plain text,not with all the markdown marks.

I am new to markdown and dendron, and I like the idea of keep notes in plain text. (well, not that plain)

But insufficient search capability would limit the prospect of a knowledge management software.

Describe the solution you'd like

Store a plain text version of markdown note whenever a note is created. And both are updated synchronously. or Search on the fly ignoring all the marks?

Have no idea. With no preference.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

SeriousBug commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the feature request! I think that would certainly be useful, I find myself needing that sometimes too.

I think the best way to deal with this would be to add a full text search option like we have on the published Dendron sites.