Allow partial and non-continuous paths in file search

tl;dr: I want to be able to search for <FOLDER>/…/<FILE>

Long: I sometimes end up with many folders containing identical or similar structures (either Obsidian habits, downloaded application logs, or just like git repositories). I would love to be able to get to a file by providing a partial path. For example, I might end up with

/Users/me/foo/logs/<some long or annoying string>/bar.txt
/Users/me/foo2/logs/<another long or annoying string>/bar.txt

Just searching for bar.txt works fine when the number of these is small. However if the number is large (e.g. log files over a longer period) this can end up ineffective. The other option, standard navigation, becomes clunky if I don’t know or don’t want to type some intermediary part of the path (imagine either a UUID or a full datestamp).

The usage pattern I’m imagining for this example is I can type foo/bar.txt and foo2/bar.txt and Monarch does partial path matching to surface these files.

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Completed

Board

💡 Feature Requests

Date

About 1 year ago

Author

Tyler Eason

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