[qot]

Obsidian's search is also bad: it doesn't prioritize file names or headings over content.

When you get past a certain number of notes, this becomes an issue. You might be trying to search for a concept you have a dedicated note of, but your search results are drowned out by normal usage of the word in other notes' contents.

[CGamesPlay]

One nice thing about the Obsidian model is that it's pretty easy to build external interior with it. I previously wrote a search engine similar to fzf but for full-text search in a directory of Markdown files, and you can hook it up to open Obsidian: https://github.com/cgamesplay/pilikino/tree/v1

[throwaway675309]

I use a quick switcher alternative to ameliorate this exact issue: https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-swi...

Makes obsidian so much better.

[sylens]

It’s not great but at least it’s fast and shows me more context in its results. It’s a more effective search for me than Notion.

[kirso]

Agreed, the irrelevancy of results has been pointed out several times. It just uses simple string matching, but the issue is that most of the tools do that :/