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I want to be able to use hashtags in Gmail - e.g. add #important in certain emails I send to myself or others, and be able to A) search on that specific tag and B) filter emails with that tag so that they automatically get processed in a certain way, like adding a label.
The problem is that when searching gmail, if you type "#important" (with or without quotes), you get every email with the word "important", whether it's preceded by a hash or not, which makes the tag pretty useless.
Same deal for the filters- if I set up a filter where email has the word "#important", it gets triggered for the word "important", not just the hashtag.
Yarin
Posted 2019-09-09T14:17:18.050
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Possible duplicate: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/31323/186085
– Attie – 2019-09-09T15:03:13.643Note also that a "hashtag" isn't really a concept that exists in many text-based systems (such as email)... It's a special feature of certain social media platforms. – Attie – 2019-09-09T15:05:13.547
Thanks for the link. Looks like special chars are not recognized by Gmail search. (Re your comment, the hashtag concept exists for ALL text-based systems - it's literally nothing more than a word with a pound sign in front of it, meant to aid search.) – Yarin – 2019-09-09T19:37:33.950