I love data, lists, data analysis and being able to analyze lists.
My current campaign has a lot of characters, both PC and NPC that I would otherwise organize into a list, but even without this option Obsidian provides a great tool in tags. Each tag serves as a column in a list that I can further analyze or sort or whatever. Wonder if there's a class imbalance among characters? Easy to check. Which area is the most populous? Got ya. Need to sort out characters belonging to one group? Here you go!
THe only thing that this feature is lacking is that I can't share what I crated. Say, I do a wiki page about a ity and I want to create a link that would provide a list of all characters that live in the area. Currently I have to do it manually, but it would be so much easier if I just could create a link to the characters page with the filters I need turned on
To illustrate what I'm talking about:
And while we are on the matter of tags...
The search function is great bar one thing - you need to know the exact tag you're looking for. Like here, I know I hate a 'sept' tag but there's no indication what other tags I might have and also there's no option to search for two tags simultaneously (at least not that I know one of)
Lastly, while there is an option to search by tag, there are some issues with it:
1. There's no easy way to get to the search page other than click on a random tag which is really inconvenient. This should be a part of front page menu
2. The search page itself is created with a tag name in the address, so it's impossible to access blank search page (at least as far as I know). Would be nice to have a blank one
3. It's impossible to select more than one tag (once more) which severely limits the functionality of the search engine. It's vital to have this feature so that the engine works properly
4. And the category selections aren't saved when providing links to the page.
Here's the illustration to those points above
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Comments
This is a very solid suggestion. I myself have had situations where I wanted to link to a subset of characters from like an organization page or similar. Consider it added to the board for the devs to take a look at for the next cycle.
- Kallak
@Kallak approved!
- Kallak
I am going to research (dont hold your breath, work/hurricane) because I could have sworn I had a saved page link that had search results with tags.
Ping me if it goes a couple of days....
Unconquered Kingdoms, July 2016 CotM
I see, you want the saved search to be filtered down farther. You already have your search by link established.
My bad, sadly I have no refinements, as my method I was rememnbering is the "basic" tag search link you already have.
https://unconquered-kingdoms.obsidianportal.com/search?tag=Aeron
Unconquered Kingdoms, July 2016 CotM