Saved Searches
A saved search looks and behaves like a folder, but its contents come from a search instead of from files you placed there. You define the query once. Every time you open the saved search, it shows an updated list of everything that currently matches.
This turns organization on its head. Instead of moving files into the right folder, you describe what belongs together and let the files sort themselves.
poly mksearch, and creating them from the app is on its way.How they work
A saved search is a lightweight .polysearch file that stores a search definition. It holds no content of its own, takes no storage quota, and you can't put files into it. Opening one runs its search and lists the results, and the results are cached so the list is available offline too.
The definition can use any filter that poly search accepts. That includes names, file types, dates, sizes, tags, ratings, location, similarity to a file, and a free-text query in either semantic or full-text mode. See Faceted Search for the full filter reference.
Recipes
Recently Edited
A folder that always holds what you touched this week, newest first:
poly mksearch //Home --title "Recently Edited" --edited-after "7 days ago" --sort -edited
Important
Keep one folder that surfaces whatever matters right now. Rate your key files, then save a search for the highly rated ones:
poly mksearch //Home --title "Important" --rating-gte 4
Custom properties take this further. Define an importance property on your files, either a number or a select with stages like triage, active, and critical, and update it as work progresses. Filtering saved searches on custom properties is still rolling out, so use ratings or tags for this today.
Topic folders
A saved search can act as a content folder, collecting everything related to a topic no matter where it lives. Point one at a representative file and it gathers similar material:
poly mksearch //Home --title "Whale Research" --near-file //Home/papers/whale-song.pdf
Keep it around and check back whenever you return to the topic. New files that match join the folder on their own.
Type folders
Instead of maintaining a "My Videos" folder by hand, describe it:
poly mksearch //Home --title "My Videos" --type video --sort -modified
The same pattern works for photos (--type image), PDFs, audio, or any other file type. Files land wherever makes sense, and the saved search rounds them up.