P: Please add smart albums

Wow... I thought I was getting old not being able to figure out how to create "dynamic albums"/"smart folders" based on things like rating. Turns out this basic basic feature is still missing after a half decade?! I'm baffled

Well, it's almost 2022, 5 years after the original OP made this post. Still no smart album in lightroom CC

technically that's easy but the benefit for us users would be insane, so please adobe team: DO IT 😉 

This seems like a really fundamental feature in my eyes. I know we can go to LrC for all the organizational tools we could ever want but shouldn't there be some middle ground here, between everything in LrC and basically nothing in Lr?

One great feature to add to Lightroom CC would be DYNAMIC ALBUMS (like the dynamic playlists in iTunes):

You create an album with several criteria, like keywords, people, or location.

And the folder gets updated automatically when new photos are added to Lightroom, or new keywords are added on a photo. So you don't need to add the photos to the album or folder manually.

In effect, the album would be a bit like a saved search.

Examples: your family, a group of friend, a specific location where you come back regularly, a specific topic you like (Sports)....

Many thanks

Kind regards

Any baby step forward would be nice. 🙂

At the very least you could begin with a saved search capability, which we could save as a dynamic album. Then you could add logic as in smart folders. Even this small step will make wonders and I don't envision too much effort on it. 

While I find extremely useful the current pivots and filters to look for images in LR Cloud, I'd appreciate the capability to save commonly used searches, which could give place to smart albums where you filter for specific dates, people, location, keywords, camera, etc. I end up creating a tedious amount of albums for this purpose that I have to manually keep updating (e.g. foodie, a certain place, birthdays, etc). 

Since I've moved a lot of photos to Adobe Lightroom (from Lightroom CC, Photos (Apple), Flickr, Dropbox. I really like it that I now have all my photos in 1 place, easily accessible everywhere. 

BUT what I miss the most is the ability to make smart selections (like in Lightroom CC).
AND an easy way to remove duplicates since I've got a lot of them. With Lightroom CC this was easily doable with plugins but I can't find any for Lightroom.

Are there any plans to add such features, or does anyone know how to solve this?

that's not sync.  that's just the ability to manually update. a subtle but very big difference as one requires an entire 2nd step by the user. no ability to scale, no thought for the future.