Ellane

2 days ago

Ellane
2 days ago

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to realise you can put #RegEx into #Obsidian queries, in amongst Obsidian query language.

I like this. Other apps can’t use Obsidian-style queries, but they can usually use the RegEx. So having it right there on the page is a reference for what I’ll need to do that same search, should it be needed, elsewhere.

#PlainText prepper, haha!

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Ellane

in reply to Ellane 2 days ago

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Here's a hybrid Obsidian+RegEx query that finds all the due: dates in my todo.txt file (the one that lives in my TODO folder, excluding the Admin folder) between 9–15 March, plus all tasks with priority (B):

```query
path:(00-TODO -Admin) (line:/(?<=:)2026-03-(?:0[9]|1[0-5])/ OR "(B)")
```

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Gordon Pedersen

in reply to Ellane 17 hours ago

@Ellane I understand what the query is supposed to look like, but I thought you might appreciate the humour in how my Friendica instance decided to render your query (image attached)