Mar 11
Search: add ‘exclude’ fields, set search scope to ‘note’ and/or ‘paragraph’, and add folder filter
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](https://www.reddit.com/r/noteplanapp/comments/m0q9ce/searchi…)
- 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](https://noteplan.canny.io/general-feature-request/p/add-and-…)
**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
Pending
this is my biggest "need" and the reason I keep looking at Obsidian, Logseq, etc. We really need a "custom filter" button in the new filter dialog. Give the user a space to type out a simple query. Logseq like: {{query AND (open (OR @shopping @errands))}} {{query AND (closed OR (folder:1-Work folder:2-Side Gig))}} Obsidian like: ```query not done (tag @shopping) OR (tag @errand) (folder includes calendar) or (folder includes 1 - Work) group by priority group by filename show tree ```