Search sessions by tags

[tg-x]

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It's possible to tag sessions but there's no way to search sessions by multiple tags. The dropdown contains all the tags but it's a single selection, an input field with auto-completion and allowing input of multiple tags would be more usable.

One way to implement it is extending the already existing "search by session name" input box, where typing #tag1 #tag2 etc. would search for sessions tagged with all the specified tags

[tedmiston]

This is a great suggestion. I tried obvious ways of searching like #tag1, [tag1], etc for the multi-tag use case before ending up here.

It would be nice to have boolean queries like tag1 AND tag2, or tag1 OR tag2.

[Pictor13]

I second this. IMHO, tags are rarely just one and the dropdown is kind of limited in use.

The best would be to be able to just type the tag-name in the search input. With or without a syntax as suggested by @tedmiston; it's not too important, for me. The AND/OR operators might be helpful but I'd stick to a minimal implementation without operators and just use AND as default; in the end it is a filtering to find the specific session you want.

Great extension though, and thank you for keeping it open-source! I abandoned SessionBuddy because of being closed source and closed to contributions.

[tsilvs]

I'd like to suggest an expansion of this idea - Nested Tags (described here: #659)

[archetyped]

+1 Would love it if tags were also included in search. Without this functionality, tags are of limited use, only serving as broad groupings of each individual tag. If they were included in search, you could easily find sessions that match multiple tags, allowing for much more dynamic groupings of sessions.

As it is, tags have to basically be duplicated in session titles if I ever hope to find the session again via search (e.g. Mac: Software: Browser: Firefox: Extensions: Dev, etc.).