Using filetag and searching by tags

Troubleshooting
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Hello everyone,

I am getting into trouble to work with tags in org-roam. I would like to reproduce what I see in the video of System Crafter : https://youtu.be/YxgA5z2R08I at 21’19’’ (see the screenshot below). As you can see, the author uses in his .org file a line with #+filetags: Project, and when he is looking for a note (calling org-roam-node-find) we can see (bottom right) that the tag “Project” appears, which would be a very nice feature for browsing my notes by topic instead of by title.

But I do not manage to reproduce this behavior although I copied the part of the configuration file of the author related to org-roam, and it seems this feature is automatically “included” with org-roam, so the issue might not come from org-roam … Does anybody know how to achieve this?

Thank you

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I believe that in this video, the author is using the Vertico completion framework.

I use the same framework and I see the tags specified in #+filetags:.

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Thank you for your reply. I will try it if there is no simpler solution. I mean, it seems that Vertico is a big beast.

Best,

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It’s honestly not too bad, and in my opinion a much better experience for completions.

If you’re using use-package the installation is pretty simple as shown on the Vertico docs. Couple this with Orderless and the completions are pretty quick and intuitive.

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just ensure your display template has provision to show the tags - can you show us your current value of org-roam-node-display-template?

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Dear @akashp ,

I think your question gave the solution. The variable org-roam-node-display-template can be customized in order to get the tags displayed. By searching for “org-roam-node-display-template” in the Org-roam User Manual we find an example that explains how to achieve it (paragraph 5.5).

Thus, I customize the variable in my init.el :

(use-package org-roam
  ;; [stuffs ...]
  :custom
  ;; [stuffs ...]
  (org-roam-node-display-template ; This is for displaying titles AND tags when calling org-roam-node-find
   (concat "${title:*} "
           (propertize "${tags:50}" 'face 'org-tag)))
  ;; [stuffs ...]
)

and it works perfectly :smiley:

Thank you all for your help !

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You can display a lot of the attributes of the node. I use todo, tags, title, and filename. I use consult-org and I can quickly search using incremental search. I highly recommend to use consult-org

          "${todo:10} "
          (propertize "${tags:30} " 'face 'org-tag)
          "${title:40} "
          "${file}"

Basically, you can display any attribute of the node:

        (title aliases                    ; 2
         id file file-title level todo     ; 5
         point priority scheduled deadline properties ;;5
         olp file-atime file-mtime tags refs)) ;;5
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