Feature: Search Notes and Journals

[indrajithi]

• Feature to search the notes by title

  • To search we can have command like. > VSJournal: Search Notes by Title
  • We can list all the files in the notes directory and the sub directories inside and match the name with the search query.
  • It would be best to use TF-IDF + Cosine Similarity or Levenshtein Distance to match, so the user need not type the exact title.
  • Once you type the title. We can return the result in same dropdown style. When selected, it should open the note.

• Feature to search in all the notes (notes content) (We can pick this as a separate issue)

  • Explore if we can use VSCode search feature

• A full text search would be best that combines the note title and the contents. (This could be a feature enhancement after we do the search in notes feature)

[anaritadauane]

Hi,

Can you assign it to me?

[anaritadauane]

Hi,

Can you assign it to me?

Can you please specify the features?

[indrajithi]

I was thinking to add support for a search feature. You can explore if we can use the VScode apis for searching or we can do a search using our code.

There are two features here. One to search the notes by title. It will be straight forward. We can list all the files in the notes directory and the sub directories inside and match the name with the search query.

To search we can have command like. >VSJournal: Search Notes by Title

Once you type the title. We can return the result in same dropdown style. No need to show the result in a new file.

For the second feature (search in notes). We need to do a little bit of research. We need to return the result after we search in the note contents. (We can pick this as a separate feature in a new issue). In this issue let us focus on the first one. I will create a new issue for the second feature.

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.

[indrajithi]

@anaritadauane I have updated the Issue content. LMK your thoughts.

[anaritadauane]

@anaritadauane I have updated the Issue content. LMK your thoughts.

Thank you for the update @indrajithi Now, it is more than clear to me I'm on it 🙂

[anaritadauane]

Hi @indrajithi,

I been trying to run the code but I have this error and I don't what it is.

Please help