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Smart List not inheriting unambiguous List

arcanewinter says:
The Smart List help page states that "If the Smart List criteria specifies a list name, the task will be added to that list (rather than being automatically added to your default list or Inbox)," but this isn't happening for at least one of my Smart Lists.

I have a Smart List called "Shopping List" that pulls tasks from a list called "Shopping" but excludes two tags. The search string looks like this:

list:shopping NOT (tag:web OR tag:cosplay)

When I add tasks to this smart list, they should automatically inherit inclusion in the "Shopping" list, but they get bumped to the inbox instead. Shouldn't they stay in the "Shopping" list?
Posted at 4:28am on July 2, 2007
raymond.bergmark Power Poster says:
I've had the same problem. To me it seems that the two tags screw things up. As that part is ambigous the whole thing gives up even though the list part should be OK.
Posted 17 years ago
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
Unfortunately this is treated as an ambiguous query due to the NOT. In the future we may have some more intelligent handling of this type of query, but for now it will ignore any query containing NOT or OR. Hope this helps.
Posted 17 years ago
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