RI2438 7 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 Legacy version, I select folder and enter search info in the search bar. Automatically filters to just that folder. Current Ver, I have to select notebook, Type search phrase, Select Filter, Enter on search phrase. 4 steps vs 2 steps. Allow when a notebook is selected, to auto filter to that notebook on search request like Legacy does. It I want to search on all notes, I can select "Notes" and search. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,054 Posted October 8, 2021 Level 5* Share Posted October 8, 2021 Hi. Nice suggestion, would be better as a votable Feature Request - would you like it moved? Link to comment
Solution Mike P 2,964 Posted October 8, 2021 Solution Share Posted October 8, 2021 40 minutes ago, RI2438 said: Legacy version, I select folder and enter search info in the search bar. Automatically filters to just that folder. Current Ver, I have to select notebook, Type search phrase, Select Filter, Enter on search phrase. 4 steps vs 2 steps. Allow when a notebook is selected, to auto filter to that notebook on search request like Legacy does. It I want to search on all notes, I can select "Notes" and search. Personally I like the current default. If I search, I normally want to search everywhere. If I want to search a specific folder the extra effort of clicking "add filter" below the search bar seems a small price to pay. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,054 Posted October 8, 2021 Level 5* Share Posted October 8, 2021 You could also get around the limitation by adding a tag to notes in each notebook - tagging with the notebook name; then search "tag:<notebook> <keyword>" to search one notebook, or -tag: etc to exclude it... 2 Link to comment
Mike P 2,964 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 7 minutes ago, gazumped said: You could also get around the limitation by adding a tag to notes in each notebook - tagging with the notebook name; then search "tag:<notebook> <keyword>" to search one notebook, or -tag: etc to exclude it... But why not use notebook:notebookname or -notebook:notebookname. Negating a notebook definitely works in V10. It is not a limitation just a slightly slower procedure than in legacy. Searches in V10 default to search everything while in legacy if you are in a notebook it just searches the notebook. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,772 Posted October 8, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted October 8, 2021 WTF - it is a bit different now (set a filter), and the mimimi starts. Just my 5 ct … Link to comment
RI2438 7 Posted October 8, 2021 Author Share Posted October 8, 2021 1 hour ago, gazumped said: You could also get around the limitation by adding a tag to notes in each notebook - tagging with the notebook name; then search "tag:<notebook> <keyword>" to search one notebook, or -tag: etc to exclude it... I already have a ton of Tags. That the purpose of organizing my notes into notebooks. Link to comment
RI2438 7 Posted October 8, 2021 Author Share Posted October 8, 2021 2 hours ago, Mike P said: Personally I like the current default. If I search, I normally want to search everywhere. If I want to search a specific folder the extra effort of clicking "add filter" below the search bar seems a small price to pay. Most of my searches are in a folder that I know. When I search all, I get too much history since I am usually searching on a property name. Link to comment
RI2438 7 Posted October 8, 2021 Author Share Posted October 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Mike P said: But why not use notebook:notebookname or -notebook:notebookname. Negating a notebook definitely works in V10. It is not a limitation just a slightly slower procedure than in legacy. Searches in V10 default to search everything while in legacy if you are in a notebook it just searches the notebook. Can you give me a real world example. Example: Notebook name: "A. Active" My search: notebook:A. Active saddle brook Yield no results. Thats really too much typing where setting a filter by clicking would still be faster than the syntax. However, selecting the folder and searching would be the fastest and most useful for how I use Evernote. Or go back to Legacy that works the best in many regards. But I am trying to move forward. Link to comment
Mike P 2,964 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 6 minutes ago, RI2438 said: Can you give me a real world example. Example: Notebook name: "A. Active" My search: notebook:A. Active saddle brook Yield no results. Notebook names which contain spaces need to be enclosed in double quotation marks. No space between the colon and the notebook name. notebook:my_notebook notebook:"my notebook" 7 minutes ago, RI2438 said: Thats really too much typing where setting a filter by clicking would still be faster than the syntax. However, selecting the folder and searching would be the fastest and most useful for how I use Evernote. I agree that doing it without the syntax is possible and easy. I personally don't think that clicking the notebook name underneath the search bar is too difficult but I have the advantge of rairly using folder specific search. Link to comment
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