Hi there! I've been playing around with this software and it's great. However, there's one feature that I'm missing (maybe it's there and I just can't find it). From what I could see, there's a quick search box and an advanced search, but the text you type in there is only used to match file names, which is great if you know the file name of the image you are looking beforehand, but that's not my use case. That's why I'm using categories to organize my images. You can use the left side panel to filter by categories, but you have to scroll all the way through to find the categories you want, which can become a pain in the ass once you have hundreds of them.
Would it be possible to add some toggle that when activated makes the text in the search box be interpreted as categories separated by comma (or some other separator)?
Search by categories in the search box
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michel038
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Re: Search by categories in the search box
In Settings > Browser > Quick search, you can enable categories search 
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philalethia
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Re: Search by categories in the search box
...except that you only get a few of the images, with the relevant categories, in the results.
As seen here:
Quick Search within categories
Also, it's Quick Filter.
Not Quick Search.
As it is clearly a filter, and by no means a search.
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lordscales91
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Re: Search by categories in the search box
Oh! That's indeed a nice feature. However, I can't search by multiple categories, it will search by any category that contains the text. So I can't search for example images with the categories "hatsune miku" and "bikini". Ideally, I would like to type a comma (or some other separator) to search for images containing multiple categories.
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philalethia
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Re: Search by categories in the search box
It filtering any file that contains the text (not allowing to filter by a specific text, as many other programs/sites allow, by using "" ...though " is allowed in category-names, which complicates things. Still, there are ways around such issues...), is a bit annoying, as well as the fact that it searches for the text in either categories or filenames, even if you just want to filter for one, but as it is a "quick" filter, that can be somewhat forgiven. (though you could solve it, in ways that wouldn't make it less "quick" or simple, most of the time)
...but the fact that it doesn't show all files that match, is a serious issue.
Not letting you search for multiple categories, is also a problem.
...and when filtering according to filename, you can't search for, e.g., ".png" in the filename. (instead, you get any file, where "png" occurs in the name, even if it isn't after a period)
Either way, allowing one to search, within the "Catalog Filter"-panel, and making it easier to select multiple categories in the panel, would be a superior solution, IMO.
...but the fact that it doesn't show all files that match, is a serious issue.
Not letting you search for multiple categories, is also a problem.
...and when filtering according to filename, you can't search for, e.g., ".png" in the filename. (instead, you get any file, where "png" occurs in the name, even if it isn't after a period)
Either way, allowing one to search, within the "Catalog Filter"-panel, and making it easier to select multiple categories in the panel, would be a superior solution, IMO.