neeldhara

This is one of my favorite dataview snippet types in #obsidian:

```dataview
LIST highlight
where highlight
```

It means that I can just prepend [highlight:: ... ] inline while taking regular notes, and this one page brings them all up in one place.

I do the same for other things I want to extract from across the vault (ideas, concepts, bookmarks, random-thoughts, etc). I have a folder called "Extracts" and one page each for each of these keywords.

I suppose if the outputs do get out of hand in terms of the number of results returned, I can additionally filter by file creation time and append a Vol - I, Vol - II, ... etc. to the files.

May 30, 2023 at 8:01pmWeb
Show threadKevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦May 31, 2023
@neeldhara neat! I've been doing something similar using a "tag summary" plugin. I'll have to try this out and see if I prefer it :)
Show threadneeldharaMay 31, 2023

@kboyd Oh nice, I'll check the plugin out too!

I do I use dataview extensively with tags as well (in particular project template pages list out all notes relevant to a project tag), but this form of leveraging inline metadata and with a two-line query seemed cute and useful :)

Show threadPrePareToMay 31, 2023
@neeldhara @actionsdotwork THANK YOU! (And I am shouting😉). This is genius.
Show threadJoel AndersonJun 1, 2023

@neeldhara This is great!
Using the TABLE version of dataview, you can also have one column for the source file and another for the highlight:

```dataview
TABLE highlights as "Highlights"
WHERE highlights
SORT file.mtime DESC
```

Show threadneeldharaJun 1, 2023
@autonomygaps Yay, thanks! Indeed... for some I do switch out to the table view - I'll steal your sorting line now :)