Organizing Saved Overviews into Categories

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I absolutely love “Smart Overviews” – but as my list of searches has grown, it is becoming a bit unwieldy. I would love to see a way to organize types of smart overviews to group them together into categories. For instance, I have a smart overview for each of my team members, so I can easily look at all notes that include them. But as my team is growing so is the list. Same goes for specific tags or more complex searches.

There are a number of posts here already discussing this:

I believe allowing searches to be added to Categories would solve all of the issues discussed in the linked posts. People could either create a distinct category for smart searches (possibly with subcategories), or alternatively add them to existing categories (or both) as they prefer.
Categories and Subcategories are already existing concepts in Agenda and Overviews and Smart Overviews (if there are more than 5 saved searches) are visually identical in the sidebar with Categories and more or less act like these. Moreover, items within Categories can be easily sorted. Therefore, using Categories seems to me the most straightforward solution for organizing Smart Overviews (and therefore preferrable to adding Folders/Subfolders). And the “pin” icon would still allow us to easily differentiate them from projects.

Thank you for considering this!

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…and here also: Subcategories for Overview?
Perhaps this is already in progress. And if not, then please do it soon.
+1 for this

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Thank you for linking, I hadn’t come across that thread yet but yes, it requests basically the same thing.

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I saw that post. As long as it was some kind of listing of overviews that could be applied to a selected catagory(s) or all. We can already designate the catagory and filter on today or whenever for On The Agenda. A lot of my stuff is to outside files so I been focused on searching for links to it inside agenda. I liked your saved search idea. Am I correct that your basically saving a template of strings that you fill in to paste to search?

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Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we would like to make some improvements to overviews in general. We’ll see what we can do.

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Am I correct that your basically saving a template of strings that you fill in to paste to search?

Yes, that was my idea.
Unfortunately, this only works with simple search terms. Agenda changes the inserted character string or crashes with more complex templates.
I’ve stopped working on it, it’s just too tedious.

I am also missing the complete search syntax sheet.
Some search queries do not work as expected. If I enter this in the search field followed by Return: \recently-edited(yesterday), then Agenda finds nothing. However, if I copy and paste this as a string, the search works as expected.
Complex topic.

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Note that by default, it will do an AND of all the terms. You can change this by clicking on the token and setting whether the term is optional or required.

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