How to filter in GitHub Projects by assignee:@me OR no:assignee?

[motero2k]

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In GitHub Issues, I can filter tasks using the OR operator, for example:

assignee:@me OR no:assignee

This allows me to see issues that either have no assignee or are assigned to me.

Problem

When trying to apply this type of filter in GitHub Projects, it does not seem to work. If I select both filters separately (assignee:@me and no:assignee), it only shows tasks that match both conditions (none), instead of either one.

Question

Is there currently a way to filter tasks in GitHub Projects with an OR condition? If not, is this something that could be considered as a future improvement?

Why is this useful?

Being able to filter with OR would help in managing tasks more efficiently, for example, by quickly identifying:

• Tasks that I am responsible for.
• Tasks that are unassigned and may need attention.

Thanks in advance for any insights or workarounds! 🙌

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[AssassinBear23]

Currently looking for something along these lines as well.

Only thing i found close enough to it is that you can do assignee:@me, @otheruser and then it will do a or operation on that. But you cant pass @noAssignee to it, you would have to use no: assignee as you stated.

The fact that you recently made this question and there has been no answer leads me to believe that currently there is no way of doing this.

Hope they add it soon.

[jayliu50]

How to reopen this?

This would also be good for

sprint:>@previous OR no:sprint

[mhbrandt]

This should work as you are excluding everything before the current sprint while including no sprint. Or for sprint planning purposes you could change current to next, which would show no sprint and all future sprints.

-sprint:<@current

[mhbrandt]

I agree that we do need this:

assignee:@me OR no:assignee

This is very important for planning purposes.

[binarymaster]

It's 2026 now and I also need this.