Query Markdown files using SQL-like syntax

[schmoelder]

There is another nice obsidian-like neovim plugin called Perec which supports querying the frontmatter of markdown files using Krafna (another tool by the same dev).

I find this a very powerful to filter my notes. E.g. you could search for files

SELECT file_name, priority, due_date 
WHERE `todo` in tags
ORDER BY due_date ASC, priority ASC

I don't know if this is out of scope for obsidian.nvim but I thought, I'd share anyways.

[neo451]

Thank you for sharing, I know krafna, later down the line might provide some optional integration to it.

And there has been folks wanting dataview compatibility. But that would be too much.

But there a new core plugin by official obsidian team called bases that use a custom yaml DSL to query the database, which would be great since we already have an yaml parser. And the work in #142 for a cache can lay the ground work for efficient queries.

[schmoelder]

Thanks for your insight! I appreciate all the efforts you put into this plugin!

Just for documentation purposes, here is another markdown based note taking tool, SilverBullet that is also written in lua and has some very powerful querying features.

Again, no expectations, just sharing and hoping that eventually querying will become available. :)

[neo451]

looks cool