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Old 09-11-2021, 08:54 PM   #1
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Is there a way to use negative tags in searching a library?
Like:
Tag:Chain -brass -aluminum -card -saw

As in searching for results with tags that say "chain", but not tags that have both "chain" and "brass" or "chain" and "aluminum" or "chain" and "saw".

Is that doable?

For stories, I really want to be able to ask Not Songfic, Not Poetry, Not Video, Not Podfic

Thank you for any help. Everyone here seems like gurus to me!
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Old 09-12-2021, 12:23 AM   #2
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Old 09-12-2021, 03:44 PM   #3
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Is there any way to ask for a result when you only know what you want to exclude?
Ex:
Title: Not Podfic
Publisher:Not fanfiction.net
Tag: Not CACW
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Old 09-12-2021, 04:35 PM   #4
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Is there any way to ask for a result when you only know what you want to exclude?
Ex:
Title: Not Podfic
Publisher:Not fanfiction.net
Tag: Not CACW
The first example in the documentation that Kovid pointed you toward has an example of what you want.
Code:
author:Asimov and not series:Foundation
For your example, assuming you want to apply all the conditions you would enter
Code:
not title:"=Podfic" and not publisher:"=fanfiction.net" and not tag:"=CACW"
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Is there any way to ask for a result when you only know what you want to exclude?
Ex:
Title: Not Podfic
Publisher:Not fanfiction.net
Tag: Not CACW
Not title: Podfic and Not publisher: fanfic.net and not tags:CACW
The Not goes before the column lookup name
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