(Archived) Clear saved search when selecting tag, suggestion.

[CyberBobCity 0]

So after being an evernote user for probably 2 years now, it's only been in the last couple week where I've really started to use Evernote heavily, and really love it just that much more. After first I was trying to juggle multiple notebooks, but it kept annoying me i always seemed to be on the wrong one or not on All Notebooks. I've recently gone to a single notebook setup, and using a Saved Search to bring up my sort of inbox (notes without any tags).

My problem is that when clicking on various tags, you automatically clear out the search. If you click on the tag Recipes and then click on the tag Computer Stuff, your Recipes search is cleared and you now just have Computer Stuff. It doesn't show you all notes taged with Recipes AND Computer Stuff. When selecting my saved search of "items with no tags", and then clicking on a tag on the left, for some reason my no tag search is still on there and the specific tag I clicked on is added. Obviously I can't have a note not tagged with anything AND tagged with a specific tag, so nothing comes up. I'm wishing selecting a tag after clicking on a saved search clears out your seach just like if you had selected a previous specific tag.

Any ideas or problems anyone forsees?

I do love Evernote. I make it a point almost everday to mention Evernote to one person, and occasionally they ask, "What's Evernote?", and I am more than happy to tell them!

Bobby B.

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

My problem is that when clicking on various tags, you automatically clear out the search. If you click on the tag Recipes and then click on the tag Computer Stuff, your Recipes search is cleared and you now just have Computer Stuff. It doesn't show you all notes taged with Recipes AND Computer Stuff.

Your search would be:

tag:"Computer Stuff" tag:"recipes"

When selecting my saved search of "items with no tags", and then clicking on a tag on the left, for some reason my no tag search is still on there and the specific tag I clicked on is added.

When you say the tag is added on, do you mean it's added on to the displayed search parameters at the top? That means it's refining your search. IOW, you could run a saved search (IE "setting up the new computer") & then further refine that search by selecting only the notes that are in the saved search AND have the tag of "this is what I did on day 1 - Monday".

I'm wishing selecting a tag after clicking on a saved search clears out your seach just like if you had selected a previous specific tag.

What you'd want to do is clear out the saved search (I use the hotkey "Find in Evernote" - I change mine, so I forget what the default value is.) That clears out the search, selects all notebooks & puts your cursor up top in the search box. Then I'd simply type tag:"computer stuff" rather than scroll down & select the tag on the left pane. Or, maybe you decided you wanted to remove one of the search terms or tags. You can go to the displayed search parameter line at the top & click the X on any of the search parameters to remove them from the current search. (Note, if you're doing a saved search, this only removes the parameter from the current search, not the saved search. )

IME, using the search bar as much as possible makes searching a lot faster & it allows you to refine your searches to quickly find what you're looking for.

You don't mention which client you're using. I use Window 3.5 - if you're using Mac, things may not be exactly the same.

PS - to the EN team - I love the search parameter ribbon. IIRC, earlier versions did not have that? But it's nice to see what EN is searching for, to confirm the search you think you typed in is what EN really is searching for.

[engberg 89]

Thanks for the pointers, BurgersNFries. Yes, the "search explanation" ribbon at the top of the client is new in Windows version 3.5. It was always in the Mac and Web, but took a while longer on Windows.