Full Text Search for Markdown and other Text Documents

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ChrisL8 wrote:

Is there a way to get Dropbox to index file extensions other than .txt as Text content?

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No, there isn't.

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If not, can this feature be added?

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Moving your post to the Share an Idea section.

I'm also missing this feature. But I ask myself if feature requests like this will be considered at all. Is this the offical way how to request features?

Please, please, please... add this feature, please. It doesn't seem to be too complicated since .txt are being indexed.

This can be so great.

This idea is going to need a bit more support.

We've updated the status to encourage more users to back you up!

I'm adding my vote.  This is a no brainer.  I can't believe it is not already supported.  I might switch back to OneDrive if not implemented because it works there. 

And I would add it should index all text file regardless of the extension.  I have thousands of plain text source code files stored in Dropbox that I would like to be able to search as well.

Absolutely required and shouldn't require significant dev effort as it's treating a markdown file no differently than a txt file. With more solutions like Obsidian popping up for markdown management people will look for ways to store their seconds brains with retention capabilities.

Adding my vote. I'm in that growing group of users who are moving (from Evernote) to Obsidian and/or Markdown.

Using Dropbox to keep my notes backed up and searchable seemed like a no-brainer at first. Discovering that .md-files aren't indexed even though they are just plain text was... surprising.

Since this thread is the top result when Googling: "does Dropbox index markdown", I'll add this for anyone looking for a solution:

It looks like Google Drive does index .md-files. You may want to consider backing up your Obsidian vaults there for the time being.

Thank you for the idea, while we can’t take every idea forward we do regularly re-review and will update you if anything changes!