What is the URL in the Note Info Window used for?

[S_Hillam 10]

What is the URL — in the screenshot below, it's blank and says Set a URL..— used for? I can get the internal URL to the note by using the shortcut Ctrl+ALT+L. So what's this? Maybe a link to a web page the note may be refering to?

[ChristianJB 105]

9 minutes ago, S_Hillam said:

Maybe a link to a web page the note may be refering to?

Yes, can be used for such a use case, for example. If you set a URL it will be displayed in the note on top next to the task counter.

[agsteele 3,062]

A note created, for example, by the web clipper will have the URL field filled with the source of the clip.

 

[Mike P 2,988]

You can also search directly for the contents of this field using an undocumented piece of advanced search syntax - sourceurl: So to find all the notes that I have clipped from the bbc website:

sourceurl:https://www.bbc.co.uk*

Unfortunately you do need to put in the https:// at the beginning as, in EN, wild card characters do not work at the beginning of a string. The asterix at the end finds all urls that begin with https://www.bbc.co.uk

 

[S_Hillam 10]

Thanks, everyone! I appreciate your help.