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says:I haven't been able to find any previous discussion on this, so hopefully it's not redundant.
My question is this: is there any way to use wildcards in the "Tagged with" field such that I could find all tasks tagged with a tag beginning with, say, "-"? It doesn't seem to work, so I'm guessing that it's simply not supported.
In my case, I precede a tag with a hyphen to indicate that it's a project. I'd like to be able to create a smart list that looks for all tasks having such a tag.
Thanks.
Posted at 5:53pm on March 20, 2007
Sorry, wildcard searching isn't currently possible with the search feature.
Posted at 9:50am on March 21, 2007
Bummer. I was hoping for the same thing.
Would love to have a wildcard, Emily. :)
Posted at 8:25pm on March 21, 2007
Another though if wildcard is difficult. You have noteContains as a search operator. Possibly create a tagContains search operator?
Posted at 8:28pm on March 21, 2007
put me down this feature, possibly for making a list with all tasks that don't have a @* tag assigned to them, for contexts
Posted at 8:00am on April 19, 2007
says:Me too! I want tagContains.
Posted at 12:23pm on April 26, 2007
tagContains would be great. Or simple wildcat could do the same.
Posted at 8:31pm on May 7, 2007
Me too. I'd love that feature...
Posted at 5:30pm on May 21, 2007
Gets my vote!
Posted at 3:50pm on June 12, 2007
Another vote!
Posted at 1:31am on June 24, 2007
and another vote here
Posted at 4:09am on June 25, 2007
tagContains or wildcard would make RTM much more flexible by specifiying your own tag-types e.g. everything with a @ is a context, etc. Strangely, notes do have this feature; I'm tempted to move tags over to notes.
Posted at 12:07pm on June 28, 2007
says:another vote!
Posted at 3:37pm on July 6, 2007
Agree with sejjiin's post - tagContains would make it a lot easier to implement GTD using RTM. Without this feature it's a bit of a challenge.
Posted at 7:30pm on July 24, 2007
Another vote for tagContains, but I think the more general solution would be (basic) regex for any search operator - then you can also force it to look at the start of the tag rather than the @ symbol appearing anywhere in the tag (unlikely in this case, but maybe not in other uses). This is the one feature that's getting in my way for easily using RTM for GTD.
Posted at 4:13am on July 26, 2007
says:Another vote for wildcard or tagContains! Any news on if this is planned to be implemented?
Posted at 2:31pm on August 1, 2007
says:I would like to cast my vote for this feature, too! Thanks RTM!
Posted at 10:35am on August 6, 2007
I want this feature too!
tagContains
Posted at 8:07pm on August 7, 2007
I'd love to have that feature too, thanks
Posted at 7:56pm on August 10, 2007
says:Could be a sweet Pro feature! :-D
Posted at 5:54pm on August 25, 2007
Another vote for "tagContains" or regular expressions
very usefull for my contact tag (every task which requires interaction with another persons is tagged with a c_name tag).
But I don't think that this should be pro only.
Posted at 10:06am on August 27, 2007
Another vote for the wildcard/regular expression version of this suggestion! Seems very strange in this day and age to encounter a search that doesn't allow for a good ol' asterisk.
Posted at 12:39pm on September 13, 2007
My vote for it. Thank you.
Posted at 9:35am on September 26, 2007
yes vote please much ta
Posted at 10:47am on November 27, 2008
Hey all! I'd like to suggest a workaround.
I suggest downloading Greasemonkey for Firefox and installing this
(http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25046).
The discussion is here:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/2943/
the first part contains a possible solution, but after you've gone over a third of the page the discussion turns to the script.
I did it about a week ago with no previous coding knowledge, and well... its really good! It classifies your projects, you still cant search for them, but you can click them on the tag cloud. Also suggested, enable your tag cloud to be seen on the tasks tab (checkbox in settings-general!).
good luck!
Posted at 7:03pm on November 29, 2008
My vote for it. Thank you.
Posted at 2:55pm on December 17, 2008
says:tagContains vote.
Posted at 5:58pm on January 8, 2009
another vote
Posted at 2:00pm on May 19, 2009
says:Interestingly, we have tagContains since almost two years ;-)
Wildcards would be a great feature (hint to Emily).
Posted at 7:08am on May 20, 2009
says:I'd sure appreciate a way to user regular expressions.
I'm implementing GTD (and GTD has got to be a great source of pro members) and I need a way to create smart lists whose names start with @. I'd love to be able to search on "^@home" without having tasks with email addresses like "@homebase" show up in my list.
Also, my "system errors" list that helps me make sure my GTD tasks are on the right lists won't work right because it's looking for tasks whose names begin with "@" but I have to say that they _contain_ @, which makes email addresses pop up.
You must have some flavor of Unix under this thing, right? It'd be easy to create a set of search ops that allow regular expressions. listRE or nameRE? You don't have to worry about backward compatibility if you create new operators.
If I can make my system work well, I'll "go pro" and use it mobile - ideally on a new Android RTM app. :-) But that's another thread.
Thanks,
Steve
Posted at 6:02am on May 22, 2009
I would like use wildcards on locations. I have many locations like DTTown1, DTTown2, SKTown1, SKTown2, etc.
Wildcards will be great to use with grouping these locations.
Posted at 10:02pm on September 2, 2009
sakal77,
Wildcards aren't currently possible, but you can still group them together in searches, e.g. location:DTTown1 OR location:DTTown2, etc. Not sure how many locations you manage, but it shouldn't be too difficult to set that up for a smart list.
Posted at 3:48pm on September 3, 2009
says:I'd like wildcard search too.
I want a saved search I call "WaitingFor" that shows all the people tagged with a task. I've been tagging people with a "_" and had hoped I could query all of them.
:-(
Posted at 7:14am on November 14, 2009
