Search for comments?

[Taitava]

Hi,

I haven't yet used Dataview, but I've watched some videos about it and read some documentation. I've been trying to figure out would it be possible for me to use Dataview to query all comments from all of my notes, but I guess Dataview does not have this kind of feature? And by comments I mean all content that is wrapped in <!-- --> or %% %%.

I would like to be able to:

• List all notes that have any comments on them (or the opposite: list notes that do not have any comments). This would be a compact list of notes, without displaying the contents of the comments.
• List all comments. This would be more verbose as it would display the comment contents.

I have not developed any Obsidian plugins myself, so I'm not even sure if Obsidian's plugin API supports searching for comments?

Background: I like to use <!-- -->/%% %% comments due to their invisible nature. I'm trying to write a book and I use these kind of comments to denote if there's something in the story that I might want to consider changing later (= some text that I'm not currently happy with). As these comments are invisible in the preview mode, they are perfect as they are not meant to be part of the final outcome: the actual story. I would just like to create a note that lists all this kind of "TODO" items that I have written in many different files.

Thank you! :)