rafalkoehler@gmail.com 2 Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Hi. When I do a "search in evernote" at the end I have a list of notes and in each note highlighted word I wanted to find. In many cases it take me a lot of time to find what I wanted. Can you please improve the overview somehow ? 1 Link to comment
1 Roginator 3 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 I agree - the search results can be pretty terrible. One of the biggest problems is that it doesn't prioritise the matching of words in the title of a note. For example, I have a note with the title "TV". When I do a "Most relevant to least relevant" search, I expect that note to be right at the top seeing as it's the only one with "TV" in the title. Instead, I get a bunch of irrelevant notes with the word "TV" somewhere in the body. I hear that the new CEO is going to fix a bunch of issues in Evernote. Please make this one of them. It's absolutely fundamental. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted February 26, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted February 26, 2019 The search feature is documented at https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828 You're using simple text search You can also use negated text entries, intitle: searches, tag searches, ... Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted March 5, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted March 5, 2019 2 hours ago, Roginator said: I expect that note to be right at the top seeing as it's the only one with "TV" in the title. Instead, I get a bunch of irrelevant notes with the word "TV" somewhere in the body. I expect the notes will be listed in the specified sequence (date or title) I can specify search intitle:TV and the list will be restricted to notes with "TV" in the title The search feature is documented at https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828 Link to comment
0 Roginator 3 Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 That's what I expect too. As I said, when I do a "Most relevant to least relevant" search, I expect the most relevant note to appear at the top. And the most relevant note is most likely a note with that word in the title. I know you can do an intitle search but a) it shouldn't be necessary when you do a relevancy search and b) it's clunky and inconvenient. 1 Link to comment
0 Level 5* DTLow 5,721 Posted March 9, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted March 9, 2019 38 minutes ago, Roginator said: "Most relevant to least relevant" search This is actually a sequence option on Macs. There's no documentation as to the algorithm behind the sequence Link to comment
0 Roginator 3 Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Right. I'm not looking for documentation. Just an improvement Link to comment
0 dantek 22 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 On 3/5/2019 at 10:40 AM, Roginator said: I agree - the search results can be pretty terrible. One of the biggest problems is that it doesn't prioritise the matching of words in the title of a note. For example, I have a note with the title "TV". When I do a "Most relevant to least relevant" search, I expect that note to be right at the top seeing as it's the only one with "TV" in the title. Instead, I get a bunch of irrelevant notes with the word "TV" somewhere in the body. I totally agree with this. Personally I would like Evernote to show the notes with the search terms in the title first - or or least have an option to enable that for people who want it. For example it makes no sense to me to not show me the note which I have specifically titled "bike" when I search for "bike" - but to have it way down the list somewhere below lots of other notes which happen to have "bike" in the note body somewhere. I have loads of options to sort the results by lots of different things - including title - but that still does not prioritise the notes with the actual search term I've asked for in the title. I know about "intitle:" to only search in titles - but I think Evernote should prioritise these by default (or at least give us an option to choose to do that). Currently I'm having to type "intitle:"for every single search that I do as that's the only way I can get Evernote to find the note I'm looking for....the note that I've specifically gone to the trouble of giving a sensible title so I can find it... Also I've just noticed...I was using the Windows client - but I've just tried this with the web client and that works differently - that _does_ show notes with the search term in the title first. I'd like the Windows client to do the same. The Android client also works as it shows notes/tags/notebooks with the search term when you are typing (before you hit enter) - which is fine too. All clients should have consistency - and I would prefer to make it easier to find notes from the text in the title - so I'd like the Windows client updating to match the web/Android client - or at least give us an option to enable that. Please comment here if you agree so Evernote will see people want this to change. 1 Link to comment
0 Roginator 3 Posted September 1, 2020 Share Posted September 1, 2020 Completely agree! Yeah, works as expected on iPhone too. Seems to be the desktop clients that are messed up. Link to comment
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Hi. When I do a "search in evernote" at the end I have a list of notes and in each note highlighted word I wanted to find. In many cases it take me a lot of time to find what I wanted. Can you please improve the overview somehow ?
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