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From: ryangreenup <exogenesis@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 20:17:03 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] How to Filter Tags

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+---
+title: Filter
+---
+
+# Search
+!!! note
+    Start this with `cadmus tags filter`
+
+## What does it do
+
+This concurrently filters your notes based on the tags that are in *TMSU*, it will be necessary to [create tags in *TMSU*](./create.md) before doing this if the tags have changed.
+
+## How Do I use it
+
+After running the command a list of tags that are currently in the tmsu database will be presented, press <kbd>Enter</kbd> to select an inital tag.
+
+From here the following will be displayed:
+
+0. Chosen Tags
+1. Matching Notes
+2. Concurrent Tags
+
+Further tags can be chosen to narrow down the search by pressing <kbd>t</kbd> or the currently selected tags can be accepted with Any key.
+
+After accepting the chosen tags with any key, all the files can be symlinked into `/tmp`,  opened in VScode [^v] or the find selecor can be started on the matches.
+
+[^v]: This will probably change to the default app when I get time to look at it, just change it to whatever app you like in `/bin/tags/FilterNotesByTMSUTag.sh`
+
+## When Would This Be Used
+
+This is great for when you're trying to collect all the knowledge you have on a particular topic when it isn't captured by your directory structure.
+
+(e.g. all notes on `#programming` may span many different directories)
+
+### Example
+
+![](./media/How-To-Filter.gif)
+
+## How does it Work
+
+I don't remember haha.
+
+Basically there is a `bash` function that finds tags in /TMSU/ and it's recursively called with <kbd>t</kbd> until any key is pressed.
+
+The chosen tags are subtracted from the concurrent tags by using `comm`:
+
+```bash
+ConcurrentTags="$(comm -13 <(echo "$ChosenTags" | sort) <(echo "$ConcurrentTags" | sort))"
+```
+
+The relevant script is in `bin/tags/FilterNotesByTMSUTag.sh`