Filter inbox by untagged items?

[jadecricket]

Is there a way to filter the inbox to reveal items that don’t have tags / are untagged?

[rmschne]

Quick search of this form, I found:

Smart Search "Folder Is" or "Folder Is Not-"

There isn’t such a criterion available for this. An option would be to set the groups to Exclude from Search in the Info inspector, but bear in mind that will affect all searches, not just the smart group. Or you could sort the smart group’s results by Location and ignore those in the specific groups. And you could tag a group and enable File > Database Properties > Inherit Tags of Groups and set the smart group to ignore the specific tag.

Where @bluefrog says

If you’re just looking for untagged items use Item is not Tagged .

Does this help?

[troejgaard]

You can make a smart group for this and limit the search scope to where you want. I thought it would be easy with a search, but I couldn’t quickly figure out the syntax – or find the correct criteria for a smart group before @rmschne replied. I haven’t had this need so far. To make it very easy, here’s a screenshot:

You can of course further customize the group.

Edit: Using the filter boxes under the search bar reveals this syntax: item:!tagged scope:Inbox

[BLUEFROG]

Also see Help > Tutorials > Don’t Sarch, Find.

[troejgaard]

Well, I didn’t spend a long time looking before @rmschne’s reply. While I’m no search Grand Master, I often use different search prefixes and operators – but as I said, this is not really something I’ve personally felt the need to filter for before. I just thought it would be pretty quick to figure out and give a little back to the forum As well as train my search syntax-fu.

I thought it might be possible to do some sort “tag is not: any" (tag:! or tag:! * or ~) but had a vague recollection that it was not so, as I quickly could confirm. I had kind of forgotten about the item prefix. I rarely search based on state, more often on content (combined with date, url, author, keywords and stuff like that.)

And while the Tutorial is a nice overview, it doesn’t really answer OP’s question specifically. But I appreciate the reminder of their existence, as I usually consult the User Manual. Indeed, if I had read a bit further, I would have found this in the Help > Appendix > Search Prefixes:

@jadecricket I recommend reading that section in the Help/User manual, or marking it for quick reference. It is very handy, and one of my most often referenced parts of the manual.

[BLUEFROG]

Your offering is a good one and will likely be useful to future readers.
And thanks for the nice comments on the manual as that is my jurisdiction

[troejgaard]

I know And it really is a great manual, in my opinion!