Is there a search operator for nodes with no date?

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Yury Molodtsov

• July 07, 2020 19:22

I’m trying a slightly different workflow in Workflowy that makes sense to me. Basically I want to show the tasks that a) have no date set and b) have a date set for today simultaneously (therefore removing any nodes scheduled for the future).

Is there such an operator?

 

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  Stefano Rausch

  • July 08, 2020 11:17
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  Have you tried the following?:

  1. " -19 -20" : take note of the missing space after the 20.
  2. " today OR -19 -20" : again, take note of the missing space after the 20.

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  Yury Molodtsov

  • July 08, 2020 09:05

  I'm not sure what "taking note of the missing space after the 20" means but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for as it still shows both kinds of nodes. 

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  Stefano Rausch

  • July 08, 2020 09:45

  If you type in the term "today OR -19 -20" into the search field, all nodes with a date not being today or starting with 19 or 20 are filtered out.

  To put it differently: All nodes of today or not having a year or being scheduled before 1900 or after 2099 will be shown.

  It is essential that after the search term "today OR -19 -20", i.e. after the 20, there is no space. Reason being: With space, you will search for the number 20 and not any figures starting with 20.

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  Yury Molodtsov

  • July 08, 2020 10:52

  That space was critical, yes. Understood, thank you so much.

  I wish Workflowy had a better up-to-date tutorial on its search.

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  Yury Molodtsov

  • July 21, 2020 15:10

  I've been playing with it and there's an edge case. -19 and -20 don't actually apply to just dates, it applies to all your texts so if for some reason you put "20" in there you won't see that node.

   

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  Stefano Rausch

  • July 21, 2020 18:11

  Correct you are, Yury.

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