P: Please add smart albums

Lightroom search 

Hi

Can someone explain to me how multiple search terms / filters work? 

It seems like multiple filters of a type are treated as OR where as filters of different types are AND.

Except for search terms which are always AND? 

This creates some unintuitive behaviour (IMO) 

So for example If I search for "Tree" "Car" I see pictures that match the intersection of Tree and Car (in any Sensi Keywords, tagged keywords, and I'll assume any other indexed fields) 

Okay, now if I Filter by location or locations what I get is results matching the following 

"Tree" && "Car" && ( Location: "India" || Location: "England") 

If I now filter by camera or cameras I get results matching the following

"Tree" && "Car" && ( Location: "India" || Location: "England") && ( Camera: "<camera a>" || Camera: "<camera b>")

This I can understand even though its counter intuitive, it does get odd when a search term (not a filter) is the name of a person / keyword.

So firstly have I understood correctly?

Now some more confusion, again an example

Person:A Person:B == Person:A || Person:B 

Where as "A" Person:B == Person:A && Person:B  (assuming A doesn't match other tags else be becomes (Person:A || keyword:A) && Person:B)

This means you can't search for Photos with 2 people in unless you use a Text Search and a Person Filter.

i.e "Mary" person:Bob results in and AND but Person:Mary Person:Bob results in an OR.

But if I use “Mary” “Bob” as a text search, I get nothing.

Both “Mary” and “Bob” will return results individually. 

So I am obviously missing some detail on how this does / doesn’t work.

Now you can do a 3 person Search using the following

Start in a person via the people view, (i.e. Mary)
Then search for “Bob” this gives you photos with Mary and Bob in, then filter by “Jane” and you only see Photos of Mary , Bob & Jane.

But 3 is your limit.

I ideally would like the ability to search for multiple people or other terms (but I could live with people to start) simply by writing a query.

I can do this with temp albums  but that shouldn’t be needed.
I’d really like a not operator as well.
i.e Mary & Jane but not Bob

Note this is possible in classic via a search or Smart collection (Oh I wish Lightroom had Smart Albums) 

Please bring "smart album" (or "saved search") to Lightroom CC.

This works great in Lightroom Classic.

I organize all my pictures with keywords and would like to be able to define albums/filters like ">=3 stars AND keywords contain hiking".

This is one of the most important features 

Please make Smart Album feature on Lightroom mobile.