I don't know if this is supposed to be a unintuitive feature or a bug but I'm guessing the later. If I open punakea and try and click on the "untagged" tag.. nothing shows.. if some text is in my spotlight's search even though spotlight is hidden. If I open the spotlight dropdown via command space and delete the text that was stored there.. all of a sudden all the tags show..

Hm ... does this only happen
Hm ... does this only happen with the "untagged" tag? I cannot reproduce this - but perhaps something is wrong with your Spotlight index - please try to rebuild it (see our FAQ) and check if it helps
Cheers
Johannes
I rebuilt my spotlight index
I rebuilt my spotlight index and the problem still persists. I made a screencast to illustrate the behavior for you:
http://www.screencast.com/t/ZDg1MGMxN
You can check it out.
Thanks for the nice
Thanks for the nice screencast, I could reproduce it now :)
It seems that the Spotlight search is put "on hold" when you close the Spotlight query while it is still active - futhermore it seems that OS X doesn't allow multiple queries to be active at the same time.
Thanks for reporting this, I hope it doesn't bother you too much, because I think we cannot easily solve this without Apple's help - but we'll keep it in mind :)
Cheers
Johannes
It's ok, sorta figured that
It's ok, sorta figured that was the case.. Anyways, good to be aware of I guess. Thanks