Steps to reproduce
- This query is a sanity check I created to make sure my tasks have a #context tag in them, like #context/shopping or whatever.
not done
description does not include #context
Expected result
It should always return very few items, hopefully zero.
Actual result
My result cup runneth over. Note that all of these items have #context in their description, but when I examine them in the Tasks dialog I don’t see #context anywhere. What happens to tags in tasks?
Yes I can use Dataview
This works, but why doesn’t tasks do the right thing? Some sort of trickery is afoot.
task where contains(text, "#task") and !contains(text,"#context")
Environment
- Operating system: MacOS Monterey 12.3.1 (21E258)
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Additional information
I also tried this:
not done
tags does not include #context
Which of course failed to even do anything.