Questions about Notepick

[ElifCase]

Hi, thanks for creating this plugin and sharing all the shortcuts.

I've been experimenting with the notepick shortcut all day yesterday to create a random loot generator from notes in my vault and I have two questions:

First of, are there any limits to the size of the data that notepick parses through / retrieves?
I've noticed that some of the values retrieved by notepick get null'd after I've run the shortcut a few times and started to retrieve ~30 items at the same time, as I'm no programmer, is there something I should keep in mind?

Secondly, is it possible to combine notepick shortcuts with obsidians search function?
Ideally, I'd want my TTRPG magic items in a single 'Loot' folder, tagged with their relevant attributes (like type and rarity). Obsidians search function can retrieve them based on their location and those tags, but it cannot pick them randomly. That's how I've found Inline Scripts, but by my cursory understanding, notepick only differentates based on folder, not by tag. So far I've attempted to sort the retrieved data based on its values, but that's horribly inefficient, are there any better ways to do it?

[jon-heard]

Sorry for the delay of this reply. I was visiting a place with no internet for a few days.

First of, are there any limits to the size of the data that notepick parses through / retrieves?

I am not aware of any existing limitations of this kind. I'll see if I can reproduce the issue, though.

is it possible to combine notepick shortcuts with obsidians search function?

At the moment notepick only allows picking by folder. Would adding the following shortcut help?

• notepick pickFromQuery {count: >0} {pick id: name text, default: ""} : {query: text} - Picks {count} random notes based on {query} and remembers them as {pick id}. The query can contain:
  • path: - Allows entering a path (complete or partial) that file choices will be filtered down to
  • file: - Allows entering a filename (complete or partial) that file choices will be filtered down to
  • tags: - Allows entering a tag that file choices will be filtered down to

[ElifCase]

I am not aware of any existing limitations of this kind. I'll see if I can reproduce the issue, though.

I have not encountered the issue since then, so I assume it takes quite a bit of repetition.

At the moment notepick only allows picking by folder. Would adding the following shortcut help?

Sounds great, even a single tag could cut down the requirement of folders significantly.

Sorry for the delay of this reply. I was visiting a place with no internet for a few days.

No pressure, I'm still busy creating pickable notes.

[jon-heard]

Hey. FYI, a new release is out. It doesn't include this requested feature of picking files by folders and tags, but that's near the top of the todo for the next release.