I have started clipping things with Evernote a few weeks ago and I quite like it. With one, big exception: the search feature drives me nuts!
In general, I've found myself in need to search for things that include some punctuation symbols. I can live with some of the limitations. But here's the biggest problem: one cannot search even for a hyphenated word such as "x-ray". It sort of works, because it searches for "x" and "ray", but one also gets back random notes that have "ray" and "x" somewhere, instead of just the intended hyphenated word. I suppose if I had something like "to-do" to search for I would get all the notes back! This is very unintuitive behavior!
Also, from what I can tell, the underscore doesn't work at all.
I, for one, would prefer a normal, textual search (where a search for "xc%ds:s" would find just such a string anywhere in the text) to the complex search we have right now (make that an "advanced" feature).
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I have started clipping things with Evernote a few weeks ago and I quite like it. With one, big exception: the search feature drives me nuts!
In general, I've found myself in need to search for things that include some punctuation symbols. I can live with some of the limitations. But here's the biggest problem: one cannot search even for a hyphenated word such as "x-ray". It sort of works, because it searches for "x" and "ray", but one also gets back random notes that have "ray" and "x" somewhere, instead of just the intended hyphenated word. I suppose if I had something like "to-do" to search for I would get all the notes back! This is very unintuitive behavior!
Also, from what I can tell, the underscore doesn't work at all.
I, for one, would prefer a normal, textual search (where a search for "xc%ds:s" would find just such a string anywhere in the text) to the complex search we have right now (make that an "advanced" feature).
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