How to search for files with tags (instead of tags)

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Hi, i cannot wrap my head around the following:

I use groups to structure my data, and treat them like (hierarchical) tags:
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Now, i almost always want to find FILES that have all those groups/tags, but the results only shows me the groups/tags.

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How does this work? Search is almost useless for me without this feature.

Thanks.

2

One option is to use the advanced search and to specify both tags, another one is to use the Tags view and to select both tags.

3

Thanks for the quick suggestions, but they are not really practical. I don’t want to click around for 30+ seconds just to perform a simple search.

I thought search is one of DEVONthink´s strengths? This is not really an uncommon scenario i guess.

4

Searching for tags is a known shortcoming but this will be definitely improved.

5

any eta for that?

6

Sorry but no. We don’t comment on development timeframes. All in due time. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

7

Is this feature available in DT3?

8

Yes, DEVONthink 3 enhances searching for tags too.

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