kkrathi 25 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 I tried searching for notes that had #FU (stands for follow up). I use #FU to identify specific lines for follow up. I do NOT use them as evernote tags. However, Evernote keeps returning back all notes with "FU" in them and not just "#FU". Needless to say, that search result is useless to me and would require lot of time to go through all notes just to find my #FU markings. I tried using quotes as in "#FU". But that did not help either. Can someone tell me what am I missing? K Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,743 Posted December 18, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted December 18, 2017 52 minutes ago, kkrathi said: Evernote keeps returning back all notes with "FU" in them and not just "#FU". Needless to say, that search result is useless to me and would require lot of time to go through all notes just to find my #FU markings. I tried using quotes as in "#FU". But that did not help either. Can someone tell me what am I missing? That's a 'feature' of Evernote"s search indexing; special characters are dropped (except for underscore) Documentation at Evernote Search Grammar Link to comment
kkrathi 25 Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Thank you. Can you or anyone suggest how to circumvent or be able to search including the "#" character? I have a lot of hashtags along specific lines in notes that I would have loved to be able to search without the need for adding Evernote tags. (I would be surprised if I am the first one wanting something like this). Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,306 Posted December 18, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted December 18, 2017 1 hour ago, kkrathi said: Thank you. Can you or anyone suggest how to circumvent or be able to search including the "#" character? I have a lot of hashtags along specific lines in notes that I would have loved to be able to search without the need for adding Evernote tags. (I would be surprised if I am the first one wanting something like this). Use the underscore as a prefix. It is the only special character that is searchable. I use it for things like _Paid and the like. No false positives that way. So _FU versus #FU, or whatever, should help with the searches you want to do. Link to comment
kkrathi 25 Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 On 12/17/2017 at 6:54 PM, CalS said: Use the underscore as a prefix. It is the only special character that is searchable. I use it for things like _Paid and the like. No false positives that way. So _FU versus #FU, or whatever, should help with the searches you want to do. Thank you. That works. I will switch to underscore going forward. Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,306 Posted December 20, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted December 20, 2017 You are welcome. Link to comment
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