> I would like to filter items by saying something like "all items whose
> tags do not contain 'foo' ". Maybe an operator like '!' or "-" which
> would be typed in the search field as "!foo" or "-foo".

> On Jan 17, 3:28 pm, mistersquid <mistersq...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I would like to filter items by saying something like "all items whose
> > tags do not contain 'foo' ". Maybe an operator like '!' or "-" which
> > would be typed in the search field as "!foo" or "-foo".

> This isn't quite what you're looking for, but you can use AppleScript
> to select all items that don't have a certain tag:

> tell application "Yojimbo" to reveal (every database item where (name
> of every tag does not contain "foo"))

> If that's useful, it could be polished up with a dialog to input the
> search term, and perhaps create a collection to contain the results.

> Jim

> I appreciate the ability to get around this with an AppleScript but I
> would like to add my vote for a negative filter to be added to
> Yojimbo. I use it for both active and completed items and would love
> to be able to exclude items that are complete when I do a search for
> an item.

> On Jan 17, 7:07 pm, anoved <jim.dev...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Jan 17, 3:28 pm, mistersquid <mistersq...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I would like to filter items by saying something like "all items whose
> > > tags do not contain 'foo' ". Maybe an operator like '!' or "-" which
> > > would be typed in the search field as "!foo" or "-foo".

> > This isn't quite what you're looking for, but you can use AppleScript
> > to select all items that don't have a certain tag:

> > tell application "Yojimbo" to reveal (every database item where (name
> > of every tag does not contain "foo"))

> > If that's useful, it could be polished up with a dialog to input the
> > search term, and perhaps create a collection to contain the results.

> > Jim