I figured out how to search by a single tag. Sorry, for not trying harder before posting. However, I'm still not able to consistently search for tasks by multiple tags. e.g. tag:@home action

It seems to work sometimes but not others. It worked when searching for tag "tag:nextaction invoice" but _not_ for "tag:invoice nextaction" or "tag:@home computer".

I'd like to be able to search for things like all 'nextaction' items with a particular tag.

Please enlighten me if I'm overlooking the obvious again.

Ok...

Thanks for all the responses. ;) I think I've figured it out.

Maybe everyone else already knows this but to search for tasks that match for multiple tags you do the following:

tag:tagOne tag:tagTwo

Jim, sorry for not getting to this one sooner -- just thought I'd mention for anyone else looking how to search for tags, it's possible to search for tasks that have multiple tags with AND:

tag:first AND tag:second

And it's also possible to search for tasks that have either tag with OR:

tag:first OR tag:second

Thanks for the response emily. I figured that out last night. After that I also found your post about Useful Searches: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/forums/help/590/

It was very helpful. I didn't realize the search functionality was that powerful. I think I'm going to be using RTM much more now.

All of the discussion above has been useful to me, so thanks to Jim and Emily. I have a new angle on this: I would like to be able to search for tasks that are not tagged with particular names... Let me explain: we tag incoming tasks with client's name (which makes tracking tasks via the tag cloud really useful), and then with the name of the team member who is working on the task. I would like to be able to see tasks that have a client-tag but so far have no team-tag. (We're only a two-person team, so there's not a whole lot of tags involved. I'm using isTagged:false to catch the few items where we have no client name on record.) Is this possible?

houweb, do you mean search for tasks that are not tagged with the team members' names? Would something like this work?

NOT (tag:emily OR tag:jim)

If you wanted to search for tasks that were tagged already, but not with team members' names, you could do something like:

isTagged:true NOT (tag:emily OR tag:jim)

(This might help to find tasks that are tagged with a client name but not with any team member.)

Hope this helps!

oh feel that boolean power! thank you, emily - the first is exactly what i was trying to do.