Sorry, wildcard searching isn't currently possible with the search feature.

Bummer. I was hoping for the same thing.

Would love to have a wildcard, Emily. :)

Another though if wildcard is difficult. You have noteContains as a search operator. Possibly create a tagContains search operator?

put me down this feature, possibly for making a list with all tasks that don't have a @* tag assigned to them, for contexts

Me too! I want tagContains.

tagContains would be great. Or simple wildcat could do the same.

Me too. I'd love that feature...

Gets my vote!

Another vote!

and another vote here

tagContains or wildcard would make RTM much more flexible by specifiying your own tag-types e.g. everything with a @ is a context, etc. Strangely, notes do have this feature; I'm tempted to move tags over to notes.

another vote!

Agree with sejjiin's post - tagContains would make it a lot easier to implement GTD using RTM. Without this feature it's a bit of a challenge.

Another vote for tagContains, but I think the more general solution would be (basic) regex for any search operator - then you can also force it to look at the start of the tag rather than the @ symbol appearing anywhere in the tag (unlikely in this case, but maybe not in other uses). This is the one feature that's getting in my way for easily using RTM for GTD.

Another vote for wildcard or tagContains! Any news on if this is planned to be implemented?

I would like to cast my vote for this feature, too! Thanks RTM!

I want this feature too!
tagContains

I'd love to have that feature too, thanks

Could be a sweet Pro feature! :-D

Another vote for "tagContains" or regular expressions

very usefull for my contact tag (every task which requires interaction with another persons is tagged with a c_name tag).

But I don't think that this should be pro only.

Another vote for the wildcard/regular expression version of this suggestion! Seems very strange in this day and age to encounter a search that doesn't allow for a good ol' asterisk.

My vote for it. Thank you.

yes vote please much ta

Hey all! I'd like to suggest a workaround.
I suggest downloading Greasemonkey for Firefox and installing this
(http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25046).
The discussion is here:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/tips/2943/
the first part contains a possible solution, but after you've gone over a third of the page the discussion turns to the script.
I did it about a week ago with no previous coding knowledge, and well... its really good! It classifies your projects, you still cant search for them, but you can click them on the tag cloud. Also suggested, enable your tag cloud to be seen on the tasks tab (checkbox in settings-general!).
good luck!

My vote for it. Thank you.

tagContains vote.

another vote

Interestingly, we have tagContains since almost two years ;-)
Wildcards would be a great feature (hint to Emily).

I'd sure appreciate a way to user regular expressions.

I'm implementing GTD (and GTD has got to be a great source of pro members) and I need a way to create smart lists whose names start with @. I'd love to be able to search on "^@home" without having tasks with email addresses like "@homebase" show up in my list.

Also, my "system errors" list that helps me make sure my GTD tasks are on the right lists won't work right because it's looking for tasks whose names begin with "@" but I have to say that they _contain_ @, which makes email addresses pop up.

You must have some flavor of Unix under this thing, right? It'd be easy to create a set of search ops that allow regular expressions. listRE or nameRE? You don't have to worry about backward compatibility if you create new operators.

If I can make my system work well, I'll "go pro" and use it mobile - ideally on a new Android RTM app. :-) But that's another thread.

Thanks,
Steve

I would like use wildcards on locations. I have many locations like DTTown1, DTTown2, SKTown1, SKTown2, etc.
Wildcards will be great to use with grouping these locations.

sakal77,
Wildcards aren't currently possible, but you can still group them together in searches, e.g. location:DTTown1 OR location:DTTown2, etc. Not sure how many locations you manage, but it shouldn't be too difficult to set that up for a smart list.

I'd like wildcard search too.

I want a saved search I call "WaitingFor" that shows all the people tagged with a task. I've been tagging people with a "_" and had hoped I could query all of them.

:-(

another vote for wildcards

Another vote for wildcard searching, and short of that, at the very least could we have right-hand truncation? I.e., if I have Lists called "wk-Project1," "wk-Project2," "wk-Project3," etc., then right-hand truncation would allow me to search:
list:wk-
or
list:"wk-"
...and get all of the tasks from those lists.

erik, you can already search for tagContains:wk-

I'm very surprised to discover I can't use wildcards, even in pro! I need the equivalent of a "listContains" search.

Sort of silly to have that nice post of GTD with RTM and then not have a listContains to enable grouping of tasks by "wk" or "ps".

+1 Can we get this feature soon? listContains would be so very very helpful

+1 listContains, as I'm using GTD w. RTM!

+1 for listContains for GTD

I have lots of personal and work lists (prefixed ps_ and wk_, respectively). I want to say (priority:1 and listContains:wk_) to get my high priority work items. Instead I have to name all my work lists individually, which is impractical as I add more of them, and they change over time. Is this in the works, or what?

+1 for listContains!

+1 for listContains!

+ 1 for listContains !

I would like to have a listContains too, nice idea!

+1 for listContains

+1 listContains

+1 for listContains

+1 vote for listContains

ListContains is much needed! I'm doing a time consuming work around.