Omnisearch

by Simon Cambier
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Description

The Omnisearch plugin replaces basic vault lookup with a much faster search flow built around relevance ranking. It helps you find notes, PDFs, Office documents and images from one place, with BM25 based scoring that weighs matches in file names, headings and body text. Results appear instantly, typo tolerance is built in and quoted phrases or exclusions make narrowing a query less clumsy. You can jump between vault wide and in file search, insert internal links straight from the results and stay on the keyboard the whole time, including Vim keys if that's your habit. It also exposes an optional local server for querying your vault from outside the app, which makes it useful beyond everyday note finding.

Reviews

  • Dmitriy Savelyev
    Reviewed on Jan 9th, 2026
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Stats

2115
stars
1,738,597
downloads
109
forks
1,570
days
3
days
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days
72
total PRs
6
open PRs
10
closed PRs
56
merged PRs
429
total issues
90
open issues
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closed issues
161
commits

Latest Version

15 days ago

Changelog

Technical release to appease Obsidian's automatic rating

Full Changelog: https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch/compare/1.30.0...1.30.1

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Omnisearch is a search engine that "just works".
It always instantly shows you the most relevant results, thanks to its smart weighting algorithm.

Under the hood, it uses the excellent MiniSearch library. This free plugin is totally unrelated to the omnisearch.ai paid product.

Documentation

https://publish.obsidian.md/omnisearch/Index

Installation

You can check the CHANGELOG for more information on the different versions.

Features

Omnisearch's first goal is to locate files instantly. You can see it as a Quick Switcher on steroids.

  • Find your 📝notes, 📄Office documents, 📄PDFs, and 🖼images faster than ever
    • Images, documents, and PDF indexing is available through Text Extractor
  • Automatic document scoring using the BM25 algorithm
    • The relevance of a document against a query depends on the number of times the query terms appear in the document, its filename, and its headings
  • Keyboard first: you never have to use your mouse
  • Workflow similar to the "Quick Switcher" core plugin
  • Opt-in local HTTP server to query Omnisearch from outside of Obsidian
  • Resistance to typos
  • Switch between Vault and In-file search to quickly skim multiple results in a single note
  • Supports "expressions in quotes" and -exclusions
  • Filters file types with .jpg or .md
  • Directly Insert a [[link]] from the search results
  • Supports Vim navigation keys

Note: support of Chinese depends on this additional plugin (also you may need to clear search cache data to apply new Chinese index). Please read its documentation for more information.

Projects that use Omnisearch

Submit a PR to add your own project!

LICENSE

Omnisearch is licensed under GPL-3.

Thanks

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