Complex Query - Deferred Tasks

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Yeah, so the current search filters doesn’t allow arbitrary AND/OR nesting, and parenthesis doesn’t work.

The way the search parsing currently works is

  1. The entire term is split by “OR” conditions
  2. Each part is split by the space character, and the AND operator is implicitly applied to them

So for example, “#work #due OR until:now” is parsed as:

  • [#work #due] OR [until:now]
  • [(#work) AND (#due)] OR [until:now]

But yeah, the OR operator currently only works on the outer-most level and cannot be nested.

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