Feature Request: Tag Filter panel in DEVONthink To Go

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I have a database where I save, when I’m on the computer, bookmarks and PDFs across a wide range of interests.
These files are all organised into folders / groups on DEVONthink.

I want to move from the rigidity of the folder structure to a pure tag-based approach so that:

  • Whenever I save a bookmark or PDF, I just assign tags corresponding to its topics and don’t have to think about where it goes within the database.
  • When I want to find files, I can navigate by tags corresponding to topics.

I have experimented with this in DEVONthink on the computer and for finding files, the Tag Filter panel (Tools > Filter > Tags) does exactly what I need. (I use it as List rather than as Cloud).

However, I realised that this functionality does not exist in DEVONthink To Go.

I searched on this community and found that other people have requested this, too (here and here).

Would DEVONtechnologies be open to implement this? (List mode would be enough - no need for Cloud view.)

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The request is noted, with no promises.

PS: Note those posts are from five and seven years ago, with no further activity on them. Bear that in mind.

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In DTTG you can use search to get a list of documents with certain tags. Use tags: tagname in the search field (obtained by pulling down on document/group list). This may help in the meantime. To save typing ‘tags:’ all the time, you could assign a keyboard text replacement to save keystrokes

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Thank you for your response, @BLUEFROG .
It would be a very useful addition as it would allow to take full benefit of tags.

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Thank you for the tip. Is this by assigning alias(es) to the tags?

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No. If using search for items with a tag a lot, your will get tired of entering ‘tags:’ all the time. You can speed this up with keyboard text replacement in IOS and MACOS.

In IOS, settings → general → keyboard → text replacement

Add something like phase = tags: shortcut = zt with a space (the space is important or words like Aztec will get changed to Atags:ec). If using on screen keyboard you will want the short cut to be letters on a single keyboard and a letter sequence not often appearing in normal words.

Then in the search box if you type ‘zt meeting’ it will get changed to ‘tags: meeting’. It just saves a few key presses thats all. If you have tags you regularly search for you could create a replacement for the whole phrase like 'ztm ’ becoming ‘tags: meetings’.

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