Search thru multiple books

[Chris Textor 1]

Hi,

How can I search thru multiple notebooks?

Or... how can I search thru everything except two notebooks?

I know it's possible to search with multiple tags (both in AND or OR operator), but I can't find it for nootbooks.

Thanks

[DTLow 5,750]

2 minutes ago, Chris Textor said:

How can I search thru multiple notebooks?

Search only allows a single Notebook attribute

but there's also a Stack attribute

More details here  Evernote Search Grammar

 

[Chris Textor 1]

What do you mean with Stack attribute.

Let me explain my issue.

I use Evernote for all my notes and for GTD (http://www.thesecretweapon.org/). All completed tasks I move them to a separate Notebook. 
I want to keep all these notes, but I don't want to see them all the time.

What would be a good solution for a search so I don't find any completed tasks?

Thanks.

 

[DTLow 5,750]

1 hour ago, Chris Textor said:

What do you mean with Stack attribute.

My use of attribute was related to items you can specify in a search

Your question was about searching through multiple notebooks

I can compose a search of a single Notebook using the search box      
                            notebook:xxxxxx   aaaaa bbbbbb
For multiple notebooks, I would still use the search box with                  
                            stack:yyyyyyy aaaaa bbbbb
where yyyyy is a stack of notebooks 

>>What would be a good solution for a search so I don't find any completed tasks?

I can't exclude a notebook from a search
I can only restrict my search to specified notebooks

Personally, I don't flag tasks as completed by moving them to another notebook

You can use a tag; I use reminders, and mark them as done.  These are attributes that can be excluded in a search

 

[jefito 5,598]

1 hour ago, Chris Textor said:

What would be a good solution for a search so I don't find any completed tasks?

In the simplest form, keep two stacks. Stacks are collections of Evernote notebooks. Name one stack, say, Personal", and the other "Archive". Put all of your active notebooks into the Personal stack, and any non-active notebooks into the "Archive" stack. Then when you search, click on the Personal stack, which searches only the notebooks in that stack, and excludes notebooks in the Archive stack.

It would be useful if the Evernote search grammar had the ability to search multiple notebooks/stacks at a time, and exclude certain notebooks or stacks, but it doesn't

[rbudd 0]

How to you restrict a search to a particular stack? I can restrict the search to specific notebooks, but not stacks. Your instructions to click a stack, then search, return results from all stacks. Thanks in advance for any help on this.

[DTLow 5,750]

12 minutes ago, rbudd said:

How to you restrict a search to a particular stack? I can restrict the search to specific notebooks, but not stacks.

You can use the search box with                  
                            stack:yyyyyyy aaaaa bbbbb
where yyyyy is a stack of notebooks

[rbudd 0]

Thank you, DTLow. I wish there were an easier way that didn't involve so much typing. Now I have to rename all my stacks to 2-letter names!

[CalS 5,327]

On 7/21/2017 at 2:50 PM, rbudd said:

Thank you, DTLow. I wish there were an easier way that didn't involve so much typing. Now I have to rename all my stacks to 2-letter names!

If you have the left panel open you can just click on the stack.