Exclude book from search #5442

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OVERLORD · 2026-02-05T10:04:12+03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 10:04:12 +03:00

Originally created by @Saturo78 on GitHub (Sep 30, 2025).

It would be very helpful to have the ability to exclude certain shelves or books from the global search results by setting a flag or property on them.

The reason for this request: In a diary or journal, terms often appear only as brief mentions without any relevant context. When searching for a topic, these entries show up as false positives and clutter the search results. Being able to exclude such content would make the search much more accurate and useful.

This could be implemented, for example, as a checkbox or a setting in the shelf/book configuration (“Exclude from search”), so that content marked this way is ignored by the search index.

Ursprünglich gepostet von @Saturo78 in https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/3917#issuecomment-3320795691

Originally created by @Saturo78 on GitHub (Sep 30, 2025). It would be very helpful to have the ability to exclude certain shelves or books from the global search results by setting a flag or property on them. The reason for this request: In a diary or journal, terms often appear only as brief mentions without any relevant context. When searching for a topic, these entries show up as false positives and clutter the search results. Being able to exclude such content would make the search much more accurate and useful. This could be implemented, for example, as a checkbox or a setting in the shelf/book configuration (“Exclude from search”), so that content marked this way is ignored by the search index. _Ursprünglich gepostet von @Saturo78 in https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/3917#issuecomment-3320795691_

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2026-02-05 10:04:13 +03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 10:04:15 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Sep 30, 2025):

Thanks for the request @Saturo78, but I'm gonna close this off as a duplicate as I feel the fundamental request here is already covered by existing issue #1691.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (Sep 30, 2025): Thanks for the request @Saturo78, but I'm gonna close this off as a duplicate as I feel the fundamental request here is already covered by existing issue #1691.

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Reference: starred/BookStack#5442