Search on partial Tags no longer works
One used to be able to search Bear on partial tags, eg #world instead of the full tag #worldaffairs. This doesn’t work anymore. It’s a real pain, as you now have to remember whether a tag was spelt #book or #books to be able to search on it.
Bear says they changed how the tag search behaves “because some users pointed out that it can produce undesirable results in some scenarios”.
This unexpected change is a real nuisance when searching with tags. I have over two hundred tags for my research notes, and now I have to remember exactly how I spelt them (often they’re abbreviations) to search on them - sometimes having to now waste time scrolling through my tag list to track them down first, instead of just typing in the first few letters.
It’s also a nuisance having to type in the complete tag every time for long tag names. For example, I now have to type out tags like #SoloJournallingRPGs in full every time. This gets especially laborious when you have to search on multiple long tags throughout the day
I also have many sets of tags based on the old behaviour - eg tags #Top1, #Top2, #Top3 etc - whereas before I could just type in #Top into search to see the notes for all of them, this ability is now gone. (I realise I could do the same with nested tags, but this was simpler and less cluttered - and now I have to recode dozens of sets of tags using this).
It would be great if Bear could go back to the way their UI used to work for searching with tags.