Searching for items without tags

eranh · January 26, 2023

My approach for finding items through the long list in my library is by using tags. It is necessary for me to easily find items without tags (especially since there seems to be a bug where I add a tag and sometimes it gets deleted).

I thought about adding tags as a column in the main view of my library, but it doesn't show as an option. Also, I couldn't find a way to search for items without tags in the search.

Any suggestions?

poettli · January 26, 2023

Did you try using a wildcard in advanced search, as suggested in these posts:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/25488/how-to-search-items-with-no-tag

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/82822/how-to-search-items-with-no-tags-from-thousands-of-items

eranh · January 26, 2023

Thanks! Searching with wildcards is a good solution.

I think adding the option to see tags as a column (and sort by it) could also be beneficial.