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I've been looking in vain for a guide to Diigo's internal search feature. Am I missing a help file or guide somewhere, similar to Google's, on how to:
-search using a partial tag
like job* to search for all tags containing job. I've experimented but can't find a way.
-search for phrases in basic search box
I see the option in Advanced, but in basic search, putting words in quotes (like google) doesn't work, unfortunately.
I love you guys, but frankly I'm annoyed... these are important features!
I hope these are features that used to work and will work again, once v3 matures.
-search using a partial tag
If you input job, you can get bookmarks with job* tags in V2. However, many people requested the tag search results based on exact match, so we implemented it in V3. We may provide the wild card search feature later.
-search for phrases in basic search box
K. We will add it soon.
thanks, Joel.
It's a shame there's no way to search substrings/partial tags in V3. That overly limits bookmarks returned, in my opinion, since it would be easy to bring up all partial matches, then allow for filtering out using the + tags feature.
Plus it messes up my system of tagging library-style, like this: "jobs--san_francisco". I can't search "jobs" and get all my "jobs--" type tags
Maybe using ~jobs (or jobs*) to signal partial matches would allow for advanced users to do this, without confusing others.
Joel Liu wrote:
> -search using a partial tag
> If you input job, you can get bookmarks with job* tags in V2. However, many people requested the tag search results based on exact match, so we implemented it in V3. We may provide the wild card search feature later.
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> -search for phrases in basic search box
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> K. We will add it soon.
davido 
Joel Liu