S_Hillam 10 Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 I've created a few checkboxes in some of my notes and would like to select all notes with a checkbox. But when I use the Filter and specify "Contains" checkboxes, no notes are selected. I'm on 10.68.3 for Windows. Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted December 27, 2023 Level 5* Share Posted December 27, 2023 Are we talking here about checkLISTS or checkBOXES? https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313618 1 Link to comment
S_Hillam 10 Posted December 28, 2023 Author Share Posted December 28, 2023 Checkboxes - NOT tasks. But I've figured it out — although it's weird. I was using Shift+Ctrl+C to create a checkbox. And it does. But it's not green. So apparently Evernote doesn't recognize it as a checkbox. I'm now using the Blue + (insert) icon and selecting Checkbox instead and it's working. I tested using the insert checkbox before creating this thread. But I was inserting it directly above the other non-active checkbox, and as soon as I pressed Enter, the active checkbox was converted into a non-active checkbox. Anyway...I now know to always use the active checkbox if I want to be able to use the checkbox filter. Thanks Link to comment
Level 5 Solution PinkElephant 8,780 Posted December 28, 2023 Level 5 Solution Share Posted December 28, 2023 Very simple: What you created is a checklist, not a checkbox. A checklist is a formatting for lists. It’s meant for several rows of text, with a tickable box at the beginning of each row. If selected it can create a strikeout of the text when ticked. A checkbox is a special text character in the form of a box, that can be ticked off. It should be used somewhere in between other text, never at the beginning of a line. Advise: Never try to use checkboxes to build a checklist. 2 Link to comment
Evernote Expert agsteele 3,059 Posted December 28, 2023 Evernote Expert Share Posted December 28, 2023 As @PinkElephant says plus don't place a checkBOX at the beginning of a line. It will be converted to a checkLIST. 2 Link to comment
takewon 0 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 This thread solved questions I have on checkboxes/checklists. Force conversion of a checkbox at the beginning of the line is tricky and inconvenient. I have other questions about checkboxes. When I do a "Todo:Ture" or "todo:false" search, what does the app start looking for? I haven't had any match when I do these searches (on 10.68.3, Windows). Can we pick up notes containing checklists using the search bar? Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 12,057 Posted January 8 Level 5* Share Posted January 8 I believe your question was answered as far as we users know in the link posted above - https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313618-How-to-find-to-do-notes-checklists- Link to comment
takewon 0 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Thank you for your reply, gazumped! I see that doing the search for "todo:*" is supposed to look for checkboxes. This search gives me no matching notes for unknown reasons, although I have notes with checkboxes. I wonder if anybody has had the same problem. Link to comment
Dave Green 261 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 6 minutes ago, takewon said: I see that doing the search for "todo:*" is supposed to look for checkboxes. This search gives me no matching notes for unknown reasons, although I have notes with checkboxes. They seem to be gone. You can use these replacements: contains:enTodo contains:enTodoFalse contains:enTodoTrue 1 Link to comment
CLBLAKE 1 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Thank you Dave Green! This worked! I've been wondering why my search I've had for years stopped working. I've submitted a help ticket on this over a month ago, and they said it was escalated. Of course with the 'restructure' of the Customer Service team I have not received an answer. I appreciate the information. 1 Link to comment
Dave Green 261 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Strangely, today checklists that are unchecked are being found by my search for contains:enTodoFalse As noted in this thread and elsewhere, this had worked, quit working and now seems to work. I hope things stabilize with this result. The documentation at https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828-Use-advanced-search-syntax has not been updated. 10.77.3-mac-ddl-public (20240221121132) Editor: v177.3.2 Service: v1.93.3 Link to comment
ghon 95 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 neither todo:false nor contains:enTodoFalse does work for me, unfortunately (testet on EN Web 10.77.3) Link to comment
Dave Green 261 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Works for me on web as well (although I am not sure where to see the web version). I think some of search is a server issue so subject to roll out. Link to comment
Dave Green 261 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 On 2/25/2024 at 9:54 AM, Dave Green said: Strangely, today checklists that are unchecked are being found by my search for contains:enTodoFalse As noted in this thread and elsewhere, this had worked, quit working and now seems to work. I hope things stabilize with this result. The documentation at https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828-Use-advanced-search-syntax has not been updated. 10.77.3-mac-ddl-public (20240221121132) Editor: v177.3.2 Service: v1.93.3 This continues to work for me, although I had a few false positives where items without checkboxes or checklists were found. I think all of these files had checkboxes or checklists in the past. I figured out that I could clean files (remove the false positives) by Changing all bullet lists to non-bullet lists with ⌘+⇧+U in the whole file Exporting the note to an ENEX file Changing all former bullet lists back to bullet lists using ⌘+⇧+U in the whole file again Exporting the note to an ENEX file In my case, I had 8 false positives in 125 hits to fix. Somehow writing to an ENEX file causes things to resolve immediately rather than when RTE and Evernote decide to. Link to comment
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