Tags with brackets

DEVONthink
1

At the moment, I am trying “special tags” as a way to group documents across multiple databases for research projects.

To distinguish between the typical tags I use, which are always one word like GLM or Bayesian, I created a tag called: [MyProjRef] The brackets included. Thinking that the brackets would indicated a “project” tags.

I was able to add the tag to multiple documents just fine.

If I go into the Tags area on the sidebar, select a database, I can filer by that tag. I can also add it to my favorites.

If I try using the search capabilities via tag:[MRRVRef] this doesn’t work. No documents are returned. The same for iOS.

2

The tag search supports wildcards and the wildcard syntax uses already brackets. E.g. [a-z] matches one of the characters from a to z whereas [ade] matches the characters a, d or e. Therefore another character should work.

3

Thanks for the quick reply.

Should we be allowed to enter tags with that special character then?

4

Sure. You can still find them, e.g. by searching for ?MRRVRef?.