Add ability to search for #tag

[marbetschar]

Hi Christian 👋 ,

Thank you very much for NoteExplorer - it has proven to be a handy little tool! While tinkering with it a bit more I was wondering whether it would be feasible to add the possibility to add a search for #tag to NoteExplorer?

Apart from linking notes to each other, I also add tags to them (e.g. #my-tag). It would be wonderful to be able to filter Zettel by a given tag with something like this:

noteexplorer list-with-tag #my-tag      Prints a list of notes with the tag #my-tag

Some more info about my use case: I'm playing with the idea of publishing a subset of my notes to a website and would love to retrieve all notes with the tag #public for this purpose. I will then create a GitHub action to automate the publishing (basically a simple copy & paste of the note).

UPDATE: Alternatively retrieving tags from YAML Frontmatter would be fine for me as well - or supporting even both approaches 🤷

---
tags: [my-tag, another-tag]
---

[cdaven]

I'm currently neither using nor developing NoteExplorer myself, but I may have a look at the code and try something out.

[cdaven]

As a "workaround", I would suggest using ripgrep to search for "#tag" like so:

rg --type md --ignore-case --fixed-strings "#tag"

Ripgrep does full-text search in all files in all subdirectories, using regular expressions by default, so it should be a good match for this use case.

• --type md only searches Markdown files
• --ignore-case matches "#TAG" as well
• --fixed-strings assumes "#tag" is a normal string and not a regular expression