how to list all installed packages (and not their dependencies)?

[blind-confused]

hello, I wanted to know how to list packages that I chose to install (for example, if I installed gnome-notes, I would like all of it's dependencies to be excluded from the list)

here's a list of commands I tried that did NOT do it (all of them return a lot of dependencies):
pacman -Q
pacman -Qe
pacman -Qq
pacman -Qqe
pacman -Qm (only lists aur packages)
yay -Qm (same as the above)

I thought perhaps pacman is just recognizing dependencies, that were installed through pacseek, as "manually installed" packages?