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Paul Hendrick
I'd like to be able to use the Quick Find to traverse a tree of items in that have have been arranged with nested Tags or Folders.
Currently the experience of going one level down is limited, as described in Expand scope of tag filters to include items tagged with sub tags
The limitation is particularly pronounced in the case of folders, where "opening" a folder from Quick Find, or navigating to
anybox://quick-find?folder=<ID>
produces a list of results that excludes all sub-folders and descendants of sub-folders.
I'd like to propose the following:
  • When tags or folders are included as Quick Find results, "opening" the item should produce another Quick Find window that also includes tags/folders that descend from the opened item
  • Always flatten the tree of tagged items: when the "show tags in Quick Find results" setting is enabled, sub-tags are included in results along with the items they're applied to
  • When included as Quick Find results, tags are always fully-qualified:
    # Parent > Sub > Tag
  • Flatten the tree of folder-organized items only when the "show folders in Quick Find results" setting is disabled: if a folder is shown in results, it's children are hidden until the user "opens" the folder
  • When included as Quick Find results, folders display relative to the current scope:
    / Parent / Sub / Folder
    ,
    / Sub / Folder
    or
    Folder
I hope that makes sense! I can write up some examples if that would help.