org roam - how to find note by content?

Is there a way of finding an org roam note by its text (not by its title nor tags)? I've been using fzf for that, but it isn't pretty.

If you're using consult there's a useful consult-ripgrep function, or you can make your own ripgrep function.

>consult-ripgrep Thanks for the tip. I found an example of it here: https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/using-consult-ripgrep-with-org-roam-for-searching-notes/1226

I gather been using Deft personally which has been fine, though I hear it doesn't scale well

As already mentioned "consult-ripgrep" is awesome and powerful. One additional thought that I hope would helpful - org-roam is specifically tries to have minimal functionality and delegates /a lot/ of things to org-mode, or general tools in emacs. So for future questions if it's not something that specifically about backlinks, but could just as well be a question about "multiple org files in directory", or just " multiple text files" - asking more general questions you might find more help and more quickly

I've also used Deft before, but as far as I know it only searches in the titles (and/or tags), not in the contents.

It definitely searches content. I was going to recommend it.

It search full-text, but do not like the ID/drawer *before* #+title: in notes, there are AFAIK some hacks to circumvent that but... ripgrapping the org-roam-directory is much nicer/faster IMO/IME :-) Also you might like considering org-ql to access your notes out of queries on metadata, that's a long shot since you need to craft them along with proper queries, but might be really useful sometime, suppose for instance you have a note a contract and a day you are willing to know all contracts you have: org-ql can answer other methods can't do much...

Yeah, you're right. I had to turn regex incremental search on.

I'll give a look at org-ql. Thanks.

Your welcome :-) my suggestion is trying something like * A book title :PROPERTIES: :ID: 2e48ead7-203e-546d-b02c-3970bf75046a :kind: book :year: 2019 :publisher: Independently published :language: english :author: Foo Bar :END: [[elisp:(org-ql-search (org-agenda-files) '(and (property "kind" "book") (property "year" "2019")) :title "My book(s) notes")][click to see all books notes I made in 2019]] Of course with few "books note" spread in various notes (I've used org-agenda-files for where to search, but it can be anything, for instance `(file-expand-wildcards "~/my/notes/*.org")`) and the query again somewhere also in scratch buffer. Org-ql do support an interactive usage, but writing like queries IMO it's not hyper natural even in non-lisp-y form, while keeping queries and yasnippets/templates for relevant headings, together, help to group different headings/notes with various criteria and you can just click on them as needed. Contracts is an example, for instance with an `:active: yes` and `:kind: contract` properties, books another, many others equivalent are possible depending of your org-mode usage. It's also possible to output query results in a buffer, as an org-table, but so far I failed to find a use-case for that... Another option is `M-x org-ql-view` with queries hard-coded in Emacs config and presented as a search&narrow list ivy/consult/helm/* style.

Full text search with sqlite could easily be added I think. I created an issue: https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/issues/2187

Good! Thanks.