Quick question about post filters (Solved)

Using Ghost
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Is there a way to have a NOT filter for posts? I would like to tag some posts as “Idea” or something like that, so I don’t lose the content but don’t plan on publishing it any time soon.

I realize I could manage this outside of Ghost, but thought I’d ask here first. I looked around for the option, but didn’t see a way to do it.

Thanks!

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Personally, I would not store your unpublished ‘ideas’ in Ghost, because there will (should) be too many and you also need inspiration for your ideas so you really need something that feeds the inspiration and saves the optimized ideas ready for you to post on social or to a newsletter. Or at least makes your many ideas searchable with outcomes far surpassing what you would ever accomplish success wise by simply leaving them in draft untested. I would bet my life on this! Annual pro plan recommended to include the bootcamp. Sign up and never leave! Nothing else touches it. Trust me. This is a game changer.

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But… they’ve done some reworking on the admin dashboard recently, so I’m not 100% sure this still works. Please report back!

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Bingo! The admin posts page takes the negative tag, like so:

https://www.forwardky.com/ghost/#/posts?tag=-idea

What does NOT work (as far as I could tell) was using a private tag:

https://www.forwardky.com/ghost/#/posts?tag=-#idea

AND, you can save the view. Very cool!

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Try hash-idea or try encoding it

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Yep, that works. Forgot about using “hash” for hash marks.

So now I have two new views: one for all posts except the ones marked #idea, and one for only #idea.

And yes, I’m sure I should keep those sorts of posts somewhere else – but some of them are from other contributors, and I don’t want to lose them in the workflow.

Thanks!