RsM 5 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Is there any way to search for a keyword inside of a notebook stack? Link to comment
Mike P 2,550 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 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. Link to comment
buckethead 213 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 More advanced search info here: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828-Use-advanced-search-syntax Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 7,818 Posted March 17, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted March 17, 2022 2 hints that may be useful for you: If you need it more often, you can save a search, and reuse it It works as well with „-stack:mystack“ to search everywhere but in this specific stack. The minus operator excludes the following term. Link to comment
RsM 5 Posted March 17, 2022 Author Share Posted March 17, 2022 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" Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 7,818 Posted March 17, 2022 Level 5 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Is the note found when you only search for the keyword, without the „stack:“ argument ? Link to comment
Mike P 2,550 Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 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 Link to comment
RsM 5 Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 Yes, the note was found without the „stack:“ argument Yes, that was a typo. Link to comment
Level 5 Solution PinkElephant 7,818 Posted March 19, 2022 Level 5 Solution Share Posted March 19, 2022 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. Link to comment
Mike P 2,550 Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 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. Link to comment
RsM 5 Posted March 19, 2022 Author Share Posted March 19, 2022 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. 1 Link to comment
RsM 5 Posted March 19, 2022 Author Share Posted March 19, 2022 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. Link to comment
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