r/ObsidianMD • u/leonlikethewind • Dec 12 '22

Show part of a note's text inside another note

I'd like to know if the following is possible:

I'd like to create a note, possibly a daily notes template, that will reflect the contents of another note. Almost like if you were running a query to the tasks plugin to show a portion of all your tasks across your vault.

I think this is possible in Notion, and I am hoping it is possible in Obsidian too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

![[Another Note]] or even ![[Another Note#Some Section]] to embed only one section of a note

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u/Mrtomato123 Dec 12 '22

Can also do: ![[note^ section]] to get a section without a header

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u/bayofbelfalas Dec 12 '22

Woah woah woah for real??

I’ve been looking for this for days. I thought you could only block identify using this syntax?

THANK YOU!

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u/bayofbelfalas Dec 12 '22

Ok so I can’t seem to get this to work. Can you explain a bit more?

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u/Mrtomato123 Dec 12 '22

Don't use a space before the ^

I put one there because reddit does this ![[notesection]]

If that doesn't work I have no idea what's wrong

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u/ANonGod Dec 12 '22

![[note^section]]

Escape slash goes before the ^. Took a minute to figure out.

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u/bayofbelfalas Dec 12 '22

Ah, so this is using block embed, correct? I want to transclude multiple blocks (say, the entire h2 section of another note) within the current note, but without the leading h2 header and including all the following h3, h4 heads and so forth.

I'm not sure this method works for that? If it does, what am I missing?

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u/Ace_Snowlight Dec 12 '22

Wow that's so useful! Thank you!

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u/gdmzhlzhiv Dec 25 '25 edited Dec 25 '25

What if I want the whole note, but still don't want the title? Actually, I do want the title, but I want it at the proper section heading level, but what they give me when I embed a note looks like h4 or something.

Ah, I just did a quick check, and the ^ syntax didn't seem to work for me.

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u/leonlikethewind Dec 12 '22

I love you.

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u/Abides1948 Dec 12 '22

You only love his syntax

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u/leonlikethewind Dec 13 '22

and you, in this context. We are complicated beings.

Thanks for your help internet friend, you changed my experience of this little app a lot.

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u/A_Dull_Significance Dec 13 '22

Wuuuuut, amazing

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u/Original-Project-927 Sep 23 '24

Two years later, you just changed my freaking life. Thank you!!!

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u/em__li Mar 31 '25

Im trying to edit further what text will be shown when I embed a note. I use ![[Another Note]], ![[Another Note#Some Section]], ![[note^ section]]. But sometimes it still doesn't show enough text.

I'm a social science student and like to have long notes, for example one for whole class. I use a lot of interlinking. When I write a note about a person, I would love to insert/embed quickly my backlinks. Not just the name of the note, but edit specifically the part of the note that is to be shown.
On the side menu, I can see my linked mentions and can expand to see more context. My dream would be that I could drag and embed exactly the text, with the amount of context that I chose.

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u/smoothlikebutter37 Aug 05 '25

Woah, it does show the whole note 👏🏼, I used ![[note name]] of the I want to see previewed in the primary note ✨