HT2194 Address Book searches and tags or keywords

Is there a way to use keyword or tags for searches in Apple's Address Book? Putting contacts into Groups isn't always the most efficient way of find people or narrowing down people withing a group. Does anyone have any ideas? Will Apple ever implement tags in Address Book?

I mostly use groups for both those purposes. I also use the company field as a sort of tag, since very few of my contacts are companies rather than individual. So I have contacts with builder or plumber or electrician in the company field - but this won't work for you if you need that field for company names. The other field you can use is the notes field; you could put several tags in, and you wouldn't need any special separator as search will find them.
The advantage of groups, for me, is that you only have to type the tag or category once and you can so quickly isolate all those in the group. A contact can of course be in multiple groups; indeed a group can be in a group.
AK

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