Selecting multiple sub-folders/tags to view notes in all of these sub-folders/tags

[Maboroshy]

There's a multiple selection available for tags and sub-folders but it's not connected to the note list.

I think that selecting multiple sub-folders/tags should show a list of all notes for them in note list pane. It's logically expected behaviour and also a cool feature to have.

Can't say I really do need it personally, but that may open some interesting note grouping possibilities for guys with many notes.

[pbek]

Currently there only can be one "selected tag" or "selected subfolder" and a lot of pieces of code depend on that selection in their operation. I don't think how wise it would be to mingle with that. It would be an awesome amount of work for sure...

Is there a use case for such a scenario?

[Maboroshy]

My user case:
I was rearranging notes migrating to sub-folder structure and wanted to move all notes with several tags to specific sub-folder. Logically I've tried to select multiple tags with no avail. So I had to go through each tag, select all notes and move them with context menu.

With proposed feature that would be N times faster, with N = number of tags.

But this feature is not something I'd use on a daily or maybe even weekly basis.

[livmion]

Hi all,

Actually that’s my typical way to use tags and how it works in other similar softwares, like Zotero or Zim. I use them in my daily work and I think this would be very useful to help finding the right note refered specifically to a sub-subject between many others with a similar thema.

[bepolymathe]

Hello,

I agree with that. I often search for notes that mix several criteria (meeting + david + barcelona) ... To do this by selecting several tags would be great to find the right note.
In my case, this would be a daily use

[MilanRusev]

+1 for that. It would be awesome to show the notes from all selected tags and all selected folders.

[SuryaLuna]

👍 !!! PLEASE implement this :-)
I have the hope, that I found with QOwnNotes a software which fits my need almost completely, it's great!- but without this feature, the software would be useless for me...
Thanks a lot in advance :-)
(I need it especially for the tags)

[hilsonp]

Oh yes !
Please let me select tags 'a' and 'b' to show only the notes that do have BOTH tags 'a' AND 'b'.
This makes the tag meaningful and allow a really powerful search approach (ala taglocity).

[pbek]

@Waqar144 did it for sub-folders. That leaves the tags. 😁

[Waqar144]

@Waqar144 did it for sub-folders. That leaves the tags. grin

Maybe a new issue for that could be more motivating 🤣

[pbek]

19.12.1

• you now can select multiple note sub-folders to filter notes
  (for #327, thank you @Waqar144)

[pbek]

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

[msbentley]

I'm not sure if this is the expected behaviour, but if I select multiple sub-folders, everything looks good. But when I de-select one of them, in some cases the selection seems not to work. See the following:

[Waqar144]

Hi thanks for reporting.

Can you tell me what your current note sub-folder settings (in panel settings) are?

Unable to reproduce this. @pbek Are you able to reproduce?

[msbentley]

Is it these setting you need?

BTW I'm selected and de-selecting with ctrl+click, in case that makes a difference...

[Waqar144]

BTW I'm selected and de-selecting with ctrl+click, in case that makes a difference...

Reproduced.
Thanks.

Usually deselecting to one folder is done with a simple click. Doing it with a Ctrl + Click is causing this.

But if you have 3 or more folder in selection, you can deselect one of them with ctrl + click and that should work fine.

[msbentley]

OK, understood now - thanks! With the caveat above, I can of course work with it, but I find it a bit confusing that if one is deselecting several folders with ctrl-click, you end up with the case of the highlighted folder selection not matching the note list.

[pbek]

Usually deselecting to one folder is done with a simple click. Doing it with a Ctrl + Click is causing this.

@Waqar144 maybe do the same like you did for tags today? 😁

[pbek]

19.12.2

• you now can select multiple note tags to filter notes
  (for #327, thank you @Waqar144)

[pbek]

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

[Waqar144]

Usually deselecting to one folder is done with a simple click. Doing it with a Ctrl + Click is causing this.

@Waqar144 maybe do the same like you did for tags today? grin

Great idea!
will do in a minute

[pbek]

19.12.3

• fixed deselection of multi folder selection (for #327, thank you @Waqar144)

[pbek]

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

[msbentley]

Works perfectly, thanks a lot @pbek and @Waqar144!

[pbek]

Great, thank you for testing!

[pbek]

We had to revert the last fix because of #1489.

19.12.4

• fixed deselection of multi folder selection again (for #327, thank you @Waqar144)

[pbek]

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

[pbek]

19.12.14

• made some performance improvements when changing the current note item
  (for #327, thank you @Waqar144)