obsidian-omnisearch VS obsidian-periodic-notes

Mobile Document Scanning using QuickScan iOS app and OCR search with Omnisearch and Text Extractor: I was a power user of the Scannable app by Evernote for capturing scans of receipts and documents, so moving on from this was going to be tough. But QuickScan has the same functionality (OCR scanning) and has quick outputs to where my scans are stored in my Obsidian folder. Using Omnisearch, searching my scans feels just as intuitive and snappy as what Evernote used to feel like for me.

In the past I have used Omnisearch which I have found to be an improvement.

https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch

Combine this with my favorite Obsidian search plugin Omnisearch and you end up making this bunch of random chat threads useful - now I can link and tag across, and source them for new ideas.

The Omnisearch plugin might be what you need. No AI but weighted results depending on where your query words are found (filename, titles, frequency...). It works well for me, it's my primary way to find notes.

The tag system works well for GTD workflows and organization in general. Default search isn't the best but the Omnisearch plugin fixes that.

Also - and speaking about plugins in general - the best way to get an issue resolved is to ask it on the GitHub page. If the plugin is maintained, its developer will usually gladly help you solve your problem :) https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch/issues

I think Obsidian Omnisearch can help you with that.

The Omnisearch plug-in for Obsidian does search in PDFs and images via OCR.

In my opinion it is absolutely possible. The developer of the Omnisearch plugin now works on PDF indexing - https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch/releases/tag/1.6.5-beta.3.

Daily Journaling using Periodic Notes and Calendar: These enable me to maintain my daily journaling habit that I had in Evernote and add a visual view using the Canvas plug-in and powerful templates for habit tracking.

Use Periodic Notes plugin, it allows you to create independent journal sets. When I say sets is because you could have one set for your work, health, money, etc. And each set could be compounded by daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly notes. You can set a shortcut to quickly change the current journal, so you can write down ideas that just came to your mind in the corresponding journal.

Check out Obsidian and Periodic Notes plugin to template out your daily notes the way you like it.

You may need to install a Periodic Notes plugin if you aren't already using it for the creation of your weekly notes.

Ever since I discovered periodic notes, I wanted to make yearly, quarterly, and monthly plans. But the calendar plugin only provided quick access to daily and weekly notes.

You may notice also that the event file name that I made uses the file name convention that the [Period Notes](https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-periodic-notes) community plugin uses which can make recurring events/templates a bit easier to manage. But you could also easily use the standard daily note file name convention `YYYY-MM-DD - This Week's Event`, etc. as your standard.

My work has a weekly rhythm (recurring operational meetings, 1:1's, staff meetings, ...) and I find a weekly note (using Periodic Notes) works better for me than daily notes. I also have a note from one meeting about something I want to communicate to someone in another meeting later in the week and find having that context in one place vs in different daily notes is useful.

I've used it so heavily that my DayOne app has basically just turned into a private photo bank. I review them once a week. If Daily Notes gets you fired up, do look into Periodic Notes which adds optional Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly notes.