Avoid typing tags in org-roam-find-file

Troubleshooting
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Hello,

I’m a relatively new org-roam user (and loving it!), so please forgive me if there’s an obvious solution to this (although I haven’t been able to find it in the documentation).

I would like to organize my notes with tags, but when I add any tag (e.g. “Bar”) to a note (e.g. titled “Foo”), then org-roam-find-file only recognizes the note name when I type the tag in parentheses first (e.g. “(Bar) Foo”). I know I could just type a wildcard * every time I use org-roam-find-file, but this would get frustrating after a while. Is there a setting to change org-roam-find-file so that it doesn’t require me to type the tags like this?

(Using org-roam version 1.2.3 and Emacs 26.1.)

Thanks in advance!

2

I think this is actually outside of Org-roam. You should be able to control the behaviour by setting completion-styles.

I would suggest Orderless, instead of trying to fiddle with the built-in options.

Alternatively, if you use Ivy or Helm, I guess this will become no issue (?)

3

Another alternative.

For v1, you can choose to place tags behind, not in front of, the title. Try setting this user option to append. I think you can achieve what you would like without changing completion-styles.

(defcustom org-roam-file-completion-tag-position 'prepend
  "Prepend, append, or omit tags from the file titles during completion."
  :type '(choice (const :tag "Prepend" prepend)
                 (const :tag "Append" append)
                 (const :tag "Omit" omit))
  :group 'org-roam)
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Thanks! I didn’t know about org-roam-file-completion-tag-position, so I just set it to omit.

Appreciate the help a bunch.

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