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On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 03:52:55PM +0100, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
> My point with the taxonomy is that Categories especially 'personal'
> and 'work' can be thought of as Meta Contexts (i wanted to say
> Meta-TAGS, but that might get confusing). So contexts that are
> arbitrary but are used to group many actual physical contexts (TAGS)
> of todo nodes.

I see.

> The '#' was the thought that if you treat Categories as a type of tag,
> then you could add them to the tag search mechanism. To avoid
> collision, such as work - the physical context and work, the category,
> prefix them with a meta-character such as # which cannot normally be
> in a tag name.
> 
> So a categorised tag-todo search might be:
> "#work+work+email/TODO"

Sure, that would be good enough for me if it were implemented - I'm
not fussy whether what I need was provided via new syntax such as the
above, or existing syntax such as

  CATEGORY="work"+email/TODO