thomas_h
Hi Thomas,
I get what you mean – and you’re right that Shortcuts.app doesn’t allow direct negation like “show me all notes that don’t have the tag ‘project’.”
But there’s a workaround that often does the trick:
Instead of trying to exclude #project, you can positively filter by all the tags you do want, as long as they’re not #project.
For example:
If you have tags like #task, #reference, #ideas, #ForeverNotes, etc. – you can build a filter like this:
Find Notes where any of the following are true:
and then list all your other tags (excluding #project).
Of course, it’s not 100% foolproof (if a note has both #task and #project, it’ll still show up), but in many setups, especially when tags are used consistently, it works well enough in practice.
Hope this makes a bit more sense now 😊
