河马啊 4 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Basically, I want search for notebook:"Cabinet" -tag:Trash* and ( (tag:Diary and tag:Fiction and -tag:Unfinished) or (tag:Notes and tag:Books) ) and save it as a saved search for everyday use. However, the last version of Evernote that BitQwik is compatible with is only 4.6.4.8136 or earlier. So any possible maybe that I can do this kind of search in Evernote Windows v6.x? Any user-made script or third-party-made tool outside evernote is also acceptable as long as helpful. Thanks. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,735 Posted August 14, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted August 14, 2017 50 minutes ago, 河马啊 said: Basically, I want search for notebook:"Cabinet" -tag:Trash* and ( (tag:Diary and tag:Fiction and -tag:Unfinished) or (tag:Notes and tag:Books) ) Evernote has never supported this type of search (combined Boolean And/Or search) I have a work-around scripted on my Mac, but it’s a manual process on my iPad. My work-around is to do seperate searches, assigning tag:temp The amalgamated results is a simple search on tag:temp Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted August 14, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted August 14, 2017 Just to amplify DTLow's answer, which is correct, you can do an AND search (which is the default) or you can do a OR search by putting the term "any:" at the start of your search (unless there's a "notebook:". term, in which case, the "any:" comes immediately after the "notebook:" term). In some constrained cases, you can simulate mixed AND/OR searches by using wildcarded search terms (for text search and tag names, mainly) or by using a "stack:" term, which does an OR selection on the set of notebooks in the named stack. But there are no general purpose AND/OR search facilities in Evernote. Further reading: the Evernote Search Grammar Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,522 Posted August 14, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted August 14, 2017 In Windows you could maybe use PhraseExpress to streamline the process - it will execute and pause for user input and execute again... This webinar from a forum contributor may help explain what's possible, though it's about Workflowy rather than searching Evernote... Link to comment
Level 5* tavor 668 Posted August 14, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted August 14, 2017 52 minutes ago, 河马啊 said: Basically, I want search for notebook:"Cabinet" -tag:Trash* and ( (tag:Diary and tag:Fiction and -tag:Unfinished) or (tag:Notes and tag:Books) ) and save it as a saved search for everyday use. However, the last version of Evernote that BitQwik is compatible with is 4.6.4.8136 or earlier. So any possible maybe that I can do this kind of search in Evernote Windows v6.x? A separate tool is acceptable. Thanks. As others have explained, this isn't currently possible. Please upvote here if you would like to see full boolean search implemented: Link to comment
河马啊 4 Posted August 14, 2017 Author Share Posted August 14, 2017 34 分鐘前, DTLow說: Evernote has never supported this type of search (combined Boolean And/Or search) I have a work-around scripted on my Mac, but it’s a manual process on my iPad. My work-around is to do seperate searches, assigning tag:temp The amalgamated results is a simple search on tag:temp I'm doing almost the same thing as you, split it into two seperate searches which evernote already support. However, is there any external/seperate tool to achieve this demand more ideally? I can use navicat to open the local .exb database file directly, which is just a SQLite database, all notes can be queried by building SQL SELECT statemen, which is read-only operation and safe enough. Is there any tools available that try to query the database directly to support the advanced search with AND/OR of evernote? I think it's useful. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,735 Posted August 14, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted August 14, 2017 3 hours ago, 河马啊 said: I can use navicat to open the local .exb database file directly, which is just a SQLite database, all notes can be queried by building SQL SELECT statemen, which is read-only operation and safe enough. Is there any tools available that try to query the database directly to support the advanced search with AND/OR of evernote? I think it's useful. I’m also accessing the database directly on my Mac. I can work with the metadata, but I haven’t been able to return the list of notes to Evernote Link to comment
Level 5* FactMan 196 Posted August 15, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted August 15, 2017 9 hours ago, tavor said: As others have explained, this isn't currently possible. Please upvote here if you would like to see full boolean search implemented: Unfortunately, you can't upvote in this forum. I suggest you do a search to find a post that discusses this where you can upvote it, and put a hyperlink in your post. It's been requested for years! Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,735 Posted August 15, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted August 15, 2017 13 minutes ago, FactMan said: Unfortunately, you can't upvote in this forum. I suggest you do a search to find a post that discusses this where you can upvote it, and put a hyperlink in your post. It's been requested for years! Link to comment
Dychemj 0 Posted August 27, 2017 Share Posted August 27, 2017 How do i search exact phrases? i am trying to find all notes with the date 2014 in them and it seems to be returning anything with 201. I tried using "2014" to no avail... please advise Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 11,522 Posted September 2, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted September 2, 2017 On 27/08/2017 at 3:31 PM, Dychemj said: How do i search exact phrases? i am trying to find all notes with the date 2014 in them and it seems to be returning anything with 201. I tried using "2014" to no avail... please advise Hi. How are your dates expressed in your notes? is 2014 a string on its own? Do you date as 1/1/2017, or 1-1-2017? Both of those work for me... Characters are only found by search grammar if they are at the start of a string - except that 'punctuation' like "/" is read as a space - so the '2017' above is effectvely a stand-alone string. Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,262 Posted September 2, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted September 2, 2017 On 8/27/2017 at 9:31 AM, Dychemj said: How do i search exact phrases? i am trying to find all notes with the date 2014 in them and it seems to be returning anything with 201. I tried using "2014" to no avail... please advise Are you saying a search for 2014 returns notes that contain 201. ? Link to comment
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