How can I search for notes using the built-in search plugin, which supports regex, to search for notes that have no entry in specific keys within the frontmatter?

I am using templater and thus am using my frontmatter looks like this:

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aliases:

publish: false

tag:

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date:: [[2023-07-11 Tue]]

parent:: [[XYZ]]

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Searching for "parent:: " works fine, but I want to find notes that do not have a parent note yet. For this I tried parent:: /$ as indicated here and here, but this and other variations like parent:: /\$/ do not yield any results.

Where am i going wrong?

  • Luxbux84@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think the built-in search has this capability, but you can try this dataview query:

    LIST
    WHERE !parent
    
    • laurelinae@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Works like a charm! I didn’t know that I could query not just from tags but from any YAML key. Thank you!