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tags and searching

Post by wsp »

I like MyInfo's tags and use them regularly, but I am puzzled by their behavior. Here's an example of what I mean:

In one of my topics, I use two tags: "corr" (correspondence) and "census" (census reports). If I select the "corr" tag in the tags mode, I expect to be able to search in only the documents with that tag; but what actually happens is that doing any search shifts the left panel back into tree mode, and the search is done across all documents. This seems counter-intuitive to me: I would assume that the search should cover only the documents with the "corr" tag. (That's how it works in EverNote, incidentally.)

Or am I doing something wrong?
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Post by Petko »

No, you are doing it right. MyInfo search works that way by design. We are open to suggestions for improvement of that area in the next versions though..
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Post by wsp »

Petko, thanks for the reply. Yes, I do think that when we limit the view to the documents with a particular tag, then searches ought to be done in just that group of documents rather than in all of them. I hope you'll consider that for future releases. Or if you merely want to make it an option, that would be fine too.
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Post by Clay Nichols »

I'd find it very useful to be able to search within results.

That could apply to results from a Filter or from clicking on Tags.
Perhaps you coudl just have a seach box at the top of the search results labelled:

Search within these results:

And you could let continue to search within those results repeatedly.


I'll suggest that as a feature.
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