Searching For Things In Your PKM Should Be Like Kibana

TODO: Write this post using the why/what/how framework 202210042153 Why:

• Being able to search things effectively is one of the most important ways to reflect on your ideas and create new insights from your notes, which is one of the fundamental components of a Zettelkasten. I’ve already talked about the value of using search history to understand your browsing patterns (and by extension, your interests) here: Search history is observability for web browsing 202204062059. Just as important is being able to search for stuff within your own notes. What: While searching, you should be able to narrow down what you’re looking for easily. Having a query language is very important for that.

How: Something I really like about kibana: it shows available tags in an already filtered query, allowing you to easily further filter your query.

How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework 202210042153

If your notes have a pre-determined schema to them 202207051412, then this is even better. You can search for things like

include this, but not that, and only some of these

And also easily visualize specific attributes about the notes that you want to see.

Tangent 202207051621 is attempting to do something like this with its query syntax:

#update 01-29-23: I update

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