Make tag search matching fuzzy

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#1

Tag searching with a mix of words and emojis is pretty cool, but when I try to search for one, it is kind of tedious because I would have to recall the specific emoji if it precedes a my word of interest.

For instance: #đź”™revisit

If I wanted to find this, I couldn’t search for it with with any part of the word:
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For this instance, however, I will admit I’m kind of lucky, in that I don’t have to go very far with the search results for this particular tag:
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That being said, if I do more tags like this, I would appreciate not having to search for the emoji first, every time I’m looking for the key search term.

There’s probably a lexicon of terms that you have that speak to what I’m thinking about with respect to refining the search, but I hope this helps you get the gist.

edit:

  • Okay so I learned that the search just doesn’t locate particular words even without the emoji. Take for instance the tag #rethinking-money, and how I can’t find it trying to type in money.

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Fuzzy matching in tag entry autocompletion
#2

Still a concern in v0.9.19.

#3

Still a concern in v0.9.20.

#4

If the bug is still in bug reports it is considered active. No need to add “still present”.
Only warn us if it has been solved along the way.

#5

Actually, I think this is more a feature request than a bug. I am gonna move it to feature reqeust and edit the title.

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#6

Yeah, I had it as a feature request initially, but no traction. Even shared on the discord: no response. Changed it to a bug yesterday. I am grateful for the title change, because I didn’t know what this problem really was referred to as, so thanks.

#7

I have some tags that use hyphens to include more than one word - sometimes for extra context, sometime as “aliases” to group together similar tags under one general concept tag. It would be nice if when entering a tag, it would match any portion of the tag with what I have typed

Hypothetical example: there’s a tag called #pet-dog-cat-wallaby

If I type #cat, #pet-dog-cat-wallaby would appear in the autocomplete, which could then be selected if it hasn’t been fully narrowed down already. The full tag (#pet-dog-cat-wallaby) would then be entered into the document rather than have any sort of actual alias functionality.

I assume that some version of what already exists for the [[link]] autocompletion would be relatively easy to port to tags.

Thanks for the consideration!

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Make tag search matching fuzzy-er in the editor
#8

I was porting a lot of stuff over from other notetaking systems and this limitation tripped me up a lot, since I use tags in a similar fashion

#9

This!

In the absence of nested tags, I use multi-word tags. Not having a fuzzy match on tag creation is a major pain.

#10

will be implemented 0.9.21

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#11

@WhiteNoise I just noticed that this was implemented, however I was hoping for something even more fuzzy than what is currently offered. For example, say I have a tag #some/tag/hierarchy, ideally I’d like to see results returned if all I typed were #tagarchy. This is how systems such as OmniFocus behave, if you’re familiar with that tool.

Should I open a separate thread for this?

#12

You are free to open a new feature request, I consider what you are asking too much fuzzy so much so that it might introduce spurious results.

#13

Thanks, I’ll open a new thread! While I understand the apprehension, I find that as long as the ranking algorithm is good it’s usually very helpful (for example, auto-complete in editors like VSCode or the aforementioned OF example).