Add special search for `headings` but inside a `focused in` on todo

[nikivi]

I want a similar thing to cmd+p but when I have todo focused in on

i.e. in below

I want to have a search that includes all todos that are inside it (no matter how deeply nested they are).

And that is different to cmd+p global search.

Thank you.

[jessegrosjean]

@nikivi

Add special search for headings but inside a focused in on todo

Not implemented yet, but I think a relative search would be a good way to indicate this. So you would add a . at the start of your search to indicate that the path should be evaluated relative to the current focus.

Like this:

.//task

I think that would work pretty well. Does it seem like it would give the behavior that you want?

Also, I expect some of this might change in Bike 2, but these are good enough stopgap solutions I think.

[nikivi]

Yes, ideally what I want is one keybind that would do this relative search.

With your solution I could automate it in KM by doing cmd+p then pasting . (if you can provide that in one keybind would be great too perhaps)

But yes, that would work well.

i.e. above should match and jump to the row

thank you lots

[jessegrosjean]

The latest preview release supports relative paths (start with a period) to generate the items used in Command-P window. When the path is relative it will be executed relative to the current focus item. I think that should give the behavior that your want.

Bike 1.19 (184) Preview

This is the “Focus Heading” menu item release: Up key will now wrap to last item Down key will now wrap to first item Command-Up will move to first item Command-Down will move to last item Added setting to remove “Home” item Added setting to use relative outline path. Use a relative path to limit choices to the focused portion of you outline To get preview releases through Bike’s software update select: Bike > Preferences > General > Include “preview” releases. Or download directly from Bike…

[nikivi]

doesn’t work unless I misunderstand something

I thought I could do this . <search>

[jessegrosjean]

Here’s how I was thinking it would work for your case:

This means when you choose “Focus Heading” you will only ever see the tasks of the focused part of your outline.

[nikivi]

this is perfect

the fact that I can jump to any root heading + children heading

all I really want now is a separate search that does exactly as above but where the root of the search is where I am focused in on

hope that makes sense

[nikivi]

As well as a search that only does root level entries

Perhaps there should be a scriptable thing that I can pass a search query filter into the search prompt to allow these 3 cases (and more)?

[jessegrosjean]

@nikivi

all I really want now is a separate search that does exactly as above but where the root of the search is where I am focused in on

hope that makes sense

It does, but I don’t think I will add that right now. Bike 2 is adding outline filtering. I expect there will be some way to store and manager multiple outline path searches. I think that would be the system to leverage for this. So I want to wait on that first.

[nikivi]

This is super important to me, let me know when I can try Bike 2 that has this feature so I move to it.

Last build of 2 I tried was super laggy, perhaps it’s fixed now.

[nikivi]

Also can you add a thing in this search

Where if I do opt+down_arrow it will jump to the next root element (not the child)

basically I want to at least be able to jump between root level items if I can’t do a root level only search