Notes are not searchable, any help? Thanks.

[Mimi888 0]

My notes are not searchable, any help? Thanks.

[gazumped 12,641]

Hi.  What are you trying to search and how?  What happens if you use the search box in the left window?

[Mimi888 0]

I just search text, not text from PDF or imagine. I use the top left search box, nothing came out, but I know the text is in the note. 

[Mimi888 0]

The search didn't work whether it is desktop app or website.

 

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To Gazumped:

Certainly, for example I have this https://www.vitacost.com/MyAccount/OrderList.aspx?sces=1   in my note (just note the website to buy things in the future), then I search "vita" or "vitacost" or "vitacost.com", NOTHING CAME OUT. 

 

 

Edited March 30, 2023 by Mimi888
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[gazumped 12,641]

Can you share exactly what you type in the search box?

[Mike P 3,438]

29 minutes ago, Mimi888 said:

Certainly, for example I have this https://www.vitacost.com/MyAccount/OrderList.aspx?sces=1   in my note (just note the website to buy things in the future), then I search "vita" or "vitacost" or "vitacost.com", NOTHING CAME OUT. 

I think EN is treating the whole url as one word. EN does not search for bits of text within a word but it will search from the beginning of a word. So reproducing your note I couldn't find any of your search terms either. But this works:

However https://www.vita doesn't - which I can't explain. The url is clearly confusing it!

Making the url the note url (see the note information panel) and searching using:

sourceurl:https://www.vita*

Woked a treat

My conclusion - searching for bits of a url can be problematic. Possible strategies to get round the problem are

• include a good title and don't rely on the "words" within the url
• add the url to the note url field - if you use the EN webclipper and use any of the options including the bookmark option this is doe for you automatically.

[Mike P 3,438]

Just one other thought. According to the search syntax specification (https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php) 

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 Words in the content of the note are split by whitespace or punctuation. Words may end in a wildcard to match the start of a word.

Multiple whitespace and/or punctuation characters in the quoted phrase or the note will be compared as if they were a single space.

I take this to mean that the url should be split into something like

https www vitacost com MyAccount OrderList aspx sces=1

and each of those words should be searchable. This does not seem to be happening.