Can not search in Markdown

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I stumbled across this post (Cannot search plain text or markdown) and think it is the same bevavior I recognize at the moment with DT3.

I’m trying to get a workaround for backlinks in Markdown and trying to use the search to get the md-document and it’s related links. But within DT3 I only could search in rendered text and not the syntax of my Markdown document.

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DEVONthink doesn’t index the source of Markdown files to avoid bloating the index and concordance.

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Hi Bluefrog,

thanks for the fast answer. It makes sense and I already figured out, how I can use a workaround:

Since DT offers auto complete after [[ the following syntax is helpful for me to link to other files within Markdown:

[[FILENAME_WITH_AUTOCOMPLETE]](FILENAME)

This renders as

[FILENAME]

is searchable, uses the official markdown syntax and renders like the file link form other applications.

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You’re welcome.
Interesting approach but yes, that seems feasible at first glance.