One nice thing about the Obsidian model is that it's pretty easy to build external interior with it. I previously wrote a search engine similar to fzf but for full-text search in a directory of Markdown files, and you can hook it up to open Obsidian: https://github.com/cgamesplay/pilikino/tree/v1

I use a quick switcher alternative to ameliorate this exact issue: https://github.com/tadashi-aikawa/obsidian-another-quick-swi...

Makes obsidian so much better.

It’s not great but at least it’s fast and shows me more context in its results. It’s a more effective search for me than Notion.

Agreed, the irrelevancy of results has been pointed out several times. It just uses simple string matching, but the issue is that most of the tools do that :/