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Sorry, wildcard searching isn't currently possible with the search feature.

Posted 6 years ago

matthewartz14

Bummer. I was hoping for the same thing.

Would love to have a wildcard, Emily. :)

Posted 6 years ago

matthewartz14

Another though if wildcard is difficult. You have noteContains as a search operator. Possibly create a tagContains search operator?

Posted 6 years ago

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 6 years ago

rajjan

Me too! I want tagContains.

Posted 6 years ago

tagContains would be great. Or simple wildcat could do the same.

Posted 6 years ago

Me too. I'd love that feature...

Posted 5 years ago

Gets my vote!

Posted 5 years ago

Another vote!

Posted 5 years ago

and another vote here

Posted 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

another vote!

Posted 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

Another vote for wildcard or tagContains! Any news on if this is planned to be implemented?

Posted 5 years ago

I would like to cast my vote for this feature, too! Thanks RTM!

Posted 5 years ago

douglas.silvio

I want this feature too!
tagContains

Posted 5 years ago

I'd love to have that feature too, thanks

Posted 5 years ago

Could be a sweet Pro feature! :-D

Posted 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

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 5 years ago

My vote for it. Thank you.

Posted 5 years ago

warwick.symes

yes vote please much ta

Posted 4 years ago

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 4 years ago

My vote for it. Thank you.

Posted 4 years ago

tagContains vote.

Posted 4 years ago

another vote

Posted 4 years ago

rajjan

Interestingly, we have tagContains since almost two years ;-)
Wildcards would be a great feature (hint to Emily).

Posted 4 years ago

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 3 years ago

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 3 years ago

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 3 years ago

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 3 years ago

rich.jackman

another vote for wildcards

Posted 3 years ago

Another vote for wildcard searching, and short of that, at the very least could we have right-hand truncation? I.e., if I have Lists called "wk-Project1," "wk-Project2," "wk-Project3," etc., then right-hand truncation would allow me to search:
list:wk-
or
list:"wk-"
...and get all of the tasks from those lists.

Posted 3 years ago

erik, you can already search for tagContains:wk-

Posted 3 years ago

I'm very surprised to discover I can't use wildcards, even in pro! I need the equivalent of a "listContains" search.

Posted 2 years ago

wrayre

Sort of silly to have that nice post of GTD with RTM and then not have a listContains to enable grouping of tasks by "wk" or "ps".

Posted 2 years ago

+1 Can we get this feature soon? listContains would be so very very helpful

Posted 2 years ago

+1 listContains, as I'm using GTD w. RTM!

Posted 2 years ago

steve.borrer

+1 for listContains for GTD

Posted 2 years ago

I have lots of personal and work lists (prefixed ps_ and wk_, respectively). I want to say (priority:1 and listContains:wk_) to get my high priority work items. Instead I have to name all my work lists individually, which is impractical as I add more of them, and they change over time. Is this in the works, or what?

Posted 2 years ago

+1 for listContains!

Posted 2 years ago

+1 for listContains!

Posted 2 years ago

+ 1 for listContains !

Posted 2 years ago

I would like to have a listContains too, nice idea!

Posted 2 years ago

+1 for listContains

Posted 2 years ago

+1 listContains

Posted 1 year ago

mark.merriman

+1 for listContains

Posted 1 year ago