Search specific characters in title?

[Heart1010 6]

I'm using the windows app and I marked several for me important notes with a (!!!!) prefix in the title e.g. "(!!!!) My note title".

Now I want to search all my notes after these (!!!!) in the title but everything I've tried I don't get my notes listed in the search results.

I thought "intitle:(!!!!)" should be the correct search phrase but this lists nothing as search result.

[PinkElephant 8,157]

You can’t search for this type of marker - it needs to be a text string, special characters are ignored by search.

The easiest way to mark a note is by using tags.

[Heart1010 6]

Ok, so the easiest thing for me now is to 're-phrase' my important notes by sorting all notes alphab. (so the notes starting with "(!!!*" are at the beginning) and then add a special tag to all those important notes for example.

[agsteele 2,952]

Yes, that should work. Bulk tagging is limited to 100 notes at a time unless you manually edit the config JSON file to raise the limit to a maximum of under 1,000 notes.

[Heart1010 6]

Thank you both!

@agsteele What exactly should I edit/add to the C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Evernote\config.json file to have more than 100 as limit?

[agsteele 2,952]

I suggest you search the forums for config.json You should find the details in a post from a year or more back.

Edit: took two minutes to locate

 

[Mike P 2,650]

@Heart1010 I like to use emojis in titles of important notes

Beware though that the intitle: search for emjos is a bit odd. However this syntax works fine:

🔴 intitle:🔴 

See 

https://discussion.evernote.com/forums/topic/145475-searching-for-emojis-in-the-title-of-a-note/#comment-679567

 

 

[Dave Green 210]

On 7/25/2023 at 9:32 AM, Heart1010 said:

I'm using the windows app and I marked several for me important notes with a (!!!!) prefix in the title e.g. "(!!!!) My note title".

Now I want to search all my notes after these (!!!!) in the title but everything I've tried I don't get my notes listed in the search results.

I thought "intitle:(!!!!)" should be the correct search phrase but this lists nothing as search result.

The parens are part of a boolean search (see https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405520390291).  The ! seems to be part of that as well, although not documented.  Also not documented is any escape mechanism to use the special characters in a regular text search.