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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by MikeTheGreat on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:31PM (#33195456)
I tried both and am using Obsidian now.

I wanted to use logseq (I felt good about "Obsidian, but open source") but when I tried to find some text in a page I was writing it didn't work. I'm a total logseq noob but as far as I could tell I needed to install an extension/plugin to search through the page, which was weird. Plus, the plugin didn't work for me (I typed in the thing to search for, clicked "go find it" and nothing happened, I think - it's been a while and I didn't use it much).

I kinda boggled my mind that logseq wouldn't have a 'Find' feature for finding text in the page I'm editing.

Please tell me that I missed something obvious so that I can feel dumb for missing that obvious thing but happy that I can take another look at logseq :)

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by soulofmischief on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:41PM (#33195587)
Ctrl+K or the macOS equivalent provides a universal search dialog with a toggle for page-only search.

The UX is extremely lacking, but it's open source, gaining steam, and they recently closed $4mil in funding so I expect it to massively improve over the next two years. Notably, page search should function without needing a dialog+overlay, and should support highlighting/navigating every match.

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by MikeTheGreat on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:27PM (#33197811)
Thanks!

I'm excited to hear that there's support for expanding it.

And I'll definitely go back and take another look at it! :)

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by cldwalker on Thursday October 13, 2022 @04:55PM (#33196368)
Cmd-K to find any line in your notes and Cmd-shift-K to find any line in your page. Starting with 0.8.3 there is also a native find-in-page feature, https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/Find%20in%20page, which can search anything that is visible including results of queries
Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by MikeTheGreat on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:26PM (#33197807)
Thanks!

I think I tried Control+F, and maybe looking through menu items (it's probably there & I just missed it).

Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by arcbyte on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:47PM (#33198739)
Its already lost me with nonsense keybindings and I haven't even installed it.
Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:22AM (#33213474)
Pretty sure search works, used it mang times. Anyway the major logseq power from my point of view is the ability to tag every bullet point, and then query it. Granted I never needed to write a query, I just search for the tag and find all references to it.

First note taking tools where I actually *read my notes*