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38 minutes ago, RsM said:

Is there any way to search for a keyword inside of a notebook stack?

Yes. You need to use the advanced search syntax. So if you want to search for "Madrid" within the stack "Travel" you would type

stack:Travel Madrid

If your stack name has spaces in it enclose the name in quotation marks.

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2 hints that may be useful for you:

  1. If you need it more often, you can save a search, and reuse it
  2. It works as well with „-stack:mystack“ to search everywhere but in this specific stack. The minus operator excludes the following term.
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I tried "stack:RSRC sidecar" (minus the quotes) and got no results.

My Stack is named RCRS

I have about 10 sub-stacks and one of them has a note in it with the word "sidecar"

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10 hours ago, RsM said:

I tried "stack:RSRC sidecar" (minus the quotes) and got no results.

My Stack is named RCRS

I assume this is a typo in your post not in your actual search but you mention both RSRC and RCRS

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Just tried the stack:mystack search:

  • Search for a word that exists in several stacks, without a stack argument: 178 hits
  • Search with the stack specified: 64 hits
  • Search with the stack excluded: 114 hits

Note that the 2 later searches exactly add up to the first one. When probing the results, the stack argument has properly been used to restrict the search results.

If it now works for you as well: Fine. If it doesn’t, something is different.

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On 3/17/2022 at 8:28 PM, RsM said:

I tried "stack:RSRC sidecar" (minus the quotes) and got no results.

My Stack is named RCRS

I have about 10 sub-stacks and one of them has a note in it with the word "sidecar"

The normal advice if you don't get the search results you are expecting is to first try on the web version of EN. If that works then it suggests a problem with your local database. Log out and choose the option to not save the data. Then re login again.

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16 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

Just tried the stack:mystack search:

  • Search for a word that exists in several stacks, without a stack argument: 178 hits
  • Search with the stack specified: 64 hits
  • Search with the stack excluded: 114 hits

Note that the 2 later searches exactly add up to the first one. When probing the results, the stack argument has properly been used to restrict the search results.

If it now works for you as well: Fine. If it doesn’t, something is different.

Thank you very much, this solved it for me. I appreciate the help.

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10 hours ago, Mike P said:

The normal advice if you don't get the search results you are expecting is to first try on the web version of EN. If that works then it suggests a problem with your local database. Log out and choose the option to not save the data. Then re login again.

Thanks, this is good to know since my database is close to 10yrs old and has close to 30k notes and does get a little wonky sometimes.

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