Don Dz 165 Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 How do you create a saved search for a note that uses unsearchable characters for the title? I suppose I could create a tag for just such a note to use as a saved search, but I was hoping for some way of using the note link. Barring that, I guess a special tag is currently the best available option. Changing the title and using special keywords in the body are a bit impractical for my use case in frequently changing notes. I currently use shortcuts for this, but I tend to use saved searches to save space on the shortcut bar, and during particularly heavy sessions I remove all shortcuts except the ones I am currently working with, hence the additional need to backup and restore my regular shortcuts as saved searches. It's an organizing issue, not really a big deal, just hoping for clues other than what I already mentioned. (Yes, I do use Dashboards notes with links, and table of contents, just hoping to work with saved searches.) (Platform options include Windows, Android & iOS, if that matters). Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted April 20, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Don Dz said: How do you create a saved search for a note that uses unsearchable characters for the title? I use / in my dates; for example 2019/04/19 and I search for 2019/04/19 I realize the / is dropped, but I still get useful results. >>but I was hoping for some way of using the note link The note link returns the note, regardless of special characters. It uses the note id (GUID), not the title. The link is url evernote:///view/... Link to comment
Don Dz 165 Posted April 21, 2019 Author Share Posted April 21, 2019 On 4/19/2019 at 8:07 PM, DTLow said: The note link returns the note, regardless of special characters. It uses the note id (GUID), not the title. The link is url evernote:///view/... Can you use note link in saved searches? That would be ideal somehow. If not, your comment regarding using dates on the title makes me think perhaps a created date search could be used in a saved search to isolate a single note or a few notes, will have to figure how to limit it since it seems to search for every note after a given date. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted April 21, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted April 21, 2019 58 minutes ago, Don Dz said: Can you use note link in saved searches? That would be ideal somehow. No, the link would be within note contents; perhaps a Table of Contents note >>will have to figure how to limit it since it seems to search for every note after a given date. Something like created:day-5 -created:day-4 Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted April 21, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted April 21, 2019 On 4/19/2019 at 4:31 PM, Don Dz said: How do you create a saved search for a note that uses unsearchable characters for the title? Example of a note title with unsearchable characters? Link to comment
Don Dz 165 Posted April 21, 2019 Author Share Posted April 21, 2019 3 hours ago, CalS said: Example of a note title with unsearchable characters? ∆ Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted April 21, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted April 21, 2019 2 minutes ago, Don Dz said: ∆ Okay. Only thing I can think of is to put the special character in position in the search string, all of it surrounded by quotes. Link to comment
Don Dz 165 Posted April 21, 2019 Author Share Posted April 21, 2019 2 hours ago, CalS said: Okay. Only thing I can think of is to put the special character in position in the search string, all of it surrounded by quotes. Well, that character is the entire title, quotation marks don't make a difference in the search. I have a number of single character titled notes like that. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted April 21, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted April 21, 2019 6 hours ago, Don Dz said: ∆ ... I have a number of single character titled notes like that. As you said; an unsearchable title. How about sort sequence. In title sequence, do these notes sort to the top or bottom? I'm liking your special tag idea Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted April 21, 2019 Level 5* Share Posted April 21, 2019 4 hours ago, Don Dz said: Well, that character is the entire title, quotation marks don't make a difference in the search. I have a number of single character titled notes like that. Well if they are somewhat unique the tag idea is probably your best bet. Link to comment
Don Dz 165 Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 17 hours ago, DTLow said: As you said; an unsearchable title. How about sort sequence. In title sequence, do these notes sort to the top or bottom? I'm liking your special tag idea Funny thing is, EN searches special characters in tags just fine, just not in notes or titles. I thought the issue was the editor they were using, until they changed the editor in the Windows client recently, now I don't know why for certain. Sorting in Windows would be to the top, but I never sort by title personally. Link to comment
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