diff --git a/ui (gen4)/features/tags.js b/ui (gen4)/features/tags.js
index 62f403e9..d381800a 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/features/tags.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/features/tags.js	
@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ var TagUIActions = actions.Actions({
 			.concat(this.data ? this.data.tags.tags() : [])
    			.unique() },
 
+	// XXX lazy tag search/add dialog...
+	// 		- initially empty
+	// 		- focus dialog search
+	// 		- on update show list of matching tags
+	// XXX
+
 	// XXX add support for tag sets and paths...
 	showTagCloud: ['Tag|Edit|Image/$Tags...',
 		core.doc`Show tags in cloud format...
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/file.js b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/file.js
index f1ef5255..edcc5b77 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/file.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/file.js	
@@ -354,8 +354,6 @@ function(path, index_dir, logger){
 				.on('end', function(files){
 					var data = groupByDate(files)
 
-					console.log('>>>>>', data)
-
 					// XXX should we mark the root timestamp in any way???
 					if('root' in data && data.root.length > 0){
 						// XXX handle stat error...
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/tags.js b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/tags.js
index 7230d354..ad954dca 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/tags.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/imagegrid/tags.js	
@@ -351,6 +351,27 @@ var TagsPrototype = {
 		}
 	},
 
+	//
+	// 	.search(str)
+	// 	.search(regexp)
+	// 		-> matches
+	//
+	// 	.search(str, list)
+	// 	.search(regexp, list)
+	// 		-> matches
+	//
+	// XXX should this return a list of matching tags of a list of values???
+	// 		....or should we have a similar method to search values??
+	// XXX should we .match(..) the results???
+	// 		...not sure if this is needed as we are taking .tags() as input...
+	// 		on the other hand we'd need to normalize the search string somehow...
+	search: function(str, tags){
+		// XXX should we do any pre-processing???
+		str = str instanceof RegExp ? str : RegExp(str)
+		return (tags || this.tags())
+			.filter(function(tag){
+				return str.test(tag) }) },
+
 
 	// Introspection...
 	//