Search: add ‘exclude’ fields, set search scope to ‘note’ and/or ‘paragraph’, and add folder filter
Eduard Metzger
In the search and review views:
- ✅ Filter tasks by folders (exclude all tasks where the note is NOT in a specific folder), so you can just view work related or personal tasks.
- Exclude tasks by folders (exclude all tasks where the note IS in a specific folder), similar as above, but exclude instead of include.
- Exclude tasks by hashtag or any keyword Related: Reddit Post
- Relative time intervals, not only “past” or “future” but things like “next 3 days” or “this month”.
- In-Place editing of tasks and update the edited result once done
- Sort by notes by edited, created, title asc/desc
- Consider adding priority as native featured (!, !!, !!!), so we can sort by priority in the search results
- Group filters into folders (i.e. make the filters list hierarchical like the note list)
- Show all tasks of a note containing a tag (filter by note, not by paragraph) -> “by paragraph” and a “by note” keyword filter
- Filter tasks by keyword in heading (so you can search for related tasks across different notes)
- OR filter
Implementation Ideas
We could add an extra field or dropdown for folders and an extra field for note scoped filters.
Exclude/include could be managed by writing
-foldername
for excluding (prepend with -
). Keywords could be chained together using
and
/ or
.Other apps with this feature
- 2Do
Anton Sklyar
Please, also add some options on the
sorting order
of the results. We now only have "Future to Past / Past to Future" sorting order that makes sense in case of scheduled
tasks. But what if I am searching amongst unscheduled
ones?For example, I have a filter that looks for all the unscheduled tasks from meeting note follow-ups - not to forget any of them. These are now displayed in some random order in the search results while I would expect them to be sorted at least in an order similar to the order of the meeting notes in the sidebar. Or even better, to have an option to sort notes in the search results by title, creation date, update date (asc / desc).
Anton Sklyar
See also the release notes from the plug-in https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/releases/tag/jgclark.SearchExtensions-v1.0.0-beta1
Has some smart suggestions about +, -, ! and multi word search that I would love to be a part of NotePlan core filters functionality.
But probably the most valuable feature in filters for me would be the ability to
exclude content
:- exclude certain folders
- exclude certain search words
- exclude certain hashtags
Eduard Metzger
Merged in a post:
Allow AND-OR conditions and wildcards in Filters search text
Sharl Ayoub
It would be great if filters allow for conditionals and regular expressions for text searching as this would open a lot of possibilities in how these filters can be used.
Aristostat
This relates to the request for logical query operators and extended search: https://noteplan.canny.io/general-feature-request/p/add-search-option-for-exact-word-or-phrase
Current discussion re: a fuse-enabled plugin or native Swift solution.
H
Haris Sav
Do we have any update on this?? It would be really helpful to add some more "power" to the search/review.
I would simply add a request to add the same functions to the /search callback. It would be really usefull!
Eduard Metzger
Merged in a post:
NOT Keyword Field for Review Filters
Dav1d
In review mode, show all tasks except the ones tagged with #waiting, #someday....
Eduard Metzger
Merged in a post:
Filter tasks by notes containing a specific tag or folder or heading
Dav1d
When in review or search mode, be able to filter and show tasks of projects tagged as #important, for instance. Or belonging to a specific folder.
Essential to review hundreds of tasks, as is my case.
Suggestion:
- Add an extra keyword field, which filters by notes, not by paragraphs and shows all paragraphs, of the note containing that keyword, such as a tag.
- Keep the “by paragraph” keyword filter, so we can further filter down tasks inside a note.
Eduard Metzger
Johannes Kees, have merged your request, I think this one also covers it?
J
Johannes Kees
Eduard Metzger: Indeed, this describes all i need
Eduard Metzger
Merged in a post:
Restrict Review filter scope to folder
S
Sarim
Currently we can scope to keyword but it would be useful to scope to folders as well. This way I can have my todos for Work separated from Personal without needing to tag every todo with keywords.
pavan kumar.l
This is what I'm looking for too. I create notes with tags and mentions at the top. These notes contain tasks too. It would be great if the tasks inherit the note level tags and show in review results.
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