Updated Readme

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## Features
- Find your notes faster than ever
- Workflow similar to the "Quick Switcher" core plugin
- Automatic document scoring using the [BM25 algorithm](https://github.com/lucaong/minisearch/issues/129#issuecomment-1046257399)
- The relevance of a document against a query depends on the number of times the query terms appear in the document, its filename, and its headings
- Can search other plaintext files and PDFs (configurable in settings)
- Workflow similar to "Quick Switcher" plugins
- Can search other plaintext files and PDFs
- Opt-in in settings
- PDF indexing is disabled on iOS
- Keyboard first: you never have to use your mouse
- Resistance to typos
- Switch between Vault and In-file search to quickly skim multiple results in a single note
- Supports `"expressions in quotes"` and `-exclusions`
- Directly Insert a `[[link]]` from the search results
- Respects Obsidian's "Excluded Files" list - results are downranked, not hidden
- Optional support for Vim navigation keys (ctrl + j, k, n, p)
- Supports Vim navigation keys (ctrl + j, k, n, p)
**Note:** support of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. depends on [this additional plugin](https://github.com/aidenlx/cm-chs-patch). Please read its documentation for more information.
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**Omnisearch makes Obsidian sluggish at startup.**
- You may have _big_ documents. Huge notes (like novels) can freeze the interface for a short time when being indexed. Enabling the setting "_Persist cache on disk_" may help you in this case.
- You may have _big_ documents. Huge notes (like novels) can freeze the interface for a short time when being indexed. While Omnisearch uses a cache between sessions, it's still rebuilt at startup to keep it up-to-date.
**I have thousands of notes, and at startup I have to wait a few seconds before making a query, or else Omnisearch does not return all the expected results.**
**I have thousands of notes, and at startup I have to wait a few seconds before Omnisearch gives me the context of a result.**
- Enabling the setting "_Persist cache on disk_" may help you in this case.
- Omnisearch refreshes its index at startup. During this time, you can still find notes, but Omnisearch is not able to show you the excerpts.
**Omnisearch gives inconsistent/invalid results, or there are errors in the developer console.**
- Go in Omnisearch settings.
- If applicable, disable and re-enable "*Persist cache on disk*".
- Restart Obsidian to clear the cache and force a reindex.
- Restart Obsidian to force a reindex of Omnisearch
**A query should return a result that does not appear.**