081 - Links to Saved Searches (Favourites) - usable from inside and outside EN

[AlbertR 952]

Feature Description

• In EN you can save searches and pin them to you Favourites.
• But Favourites are growing over the time and occupy too much space in the Left Side Bar
  • See 021 - Display Favorites below main menu bar for an other wish around this...
• Users would like to store Saved Searches as a clickable link to note texts
  • This would allow to create global TOC notes  with not only links to static notes ...
  • Such links to Saved Searches would point to dynamic result lists...

Expected behaviour

• Object-Menue on entries in Favourites (Right-Mouse-Button-click), RMB-click) should offer an option to copy a link the the search to the clipboard
  • 
  • ... similar to Alt-Ctrl-L to copy a link to (static) note...

Workaround

• No really usable workaround inside EN.
• Here are some suggestions of other EN users
  • Mike P. in October 2024
    • Most of my "shortcuts" appear as advanced search syntax within the body of notes, especially my "dashboard notes" that provide an overview for a particular topic/project. I then have an AutoHotKey script that copies that text into the search bar and executes the search. Works really well for me.
  • CalS in February 2019
    • Until EN implements any of this I have implemented what Frank recommends, using PhaseExpress.  I created a macro that does a search in EN based upon whatever text I have highlighted in whatever app I am in at the time, EN - Browser - whatever.  The process is highlight text, Shift-Ctrl-Z, look at the results.

Background information (See also...)

• all from Forum request "Links to Tags, notebooks, stacks, and saved searches" ...
  • EN user timva in February 2016 in Forum request
    • ... For the developers, it should be really simple to extend the evernote://view/ protocol with a evernote://search/ subhandler.
    • ... I wrote this in C# and it is 7 lines long... I can only imagine how fast Evernote developers could replicate this and put it in their program.
  • EN Expert Laimonas in September 2020
    • What if I could add a saved search as a hyperlink in my note ? I'd simply like to navigate to this saved search from inside of the note, - same way I navigate to other note with internal link. This gives me an option to have dynamic table of content, rather than static one, which I can produce after I search my notes. 
       
• Already opened Feature Request to support: #4032008

[Dave Green 316]

3 hours ago, AlbertR said:

• Mike P. in October 2024
  • Most of my "shortcuts" appear as advanced search syntax within the body of notes, especially my "dashboard notes" that provide an overview for a particular topic/project. I then have an AutoHotKey script that copies that text into the search bar and executes the search. Works really well for me.
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An Evernote-only version of this, which requires two or three more clicks, is to store the search in an Evernote (plain text) code block.  That comes with a "copy button," which one clicks and then pasts into the search box for searching.

[Mike P 3,435]

1 hour ago, Dave Green said:

An Evernote-only version of this, which requires two or three more clicks, is to store the search in an Evernote (plain text) code block.  That comes with a "copy button," which one clicks and then pasts into the search box for searching.

Good suggestion. I actually put my text strings in code blocks but put multiple related strings in the same block.

[Grant837 192]

@AlbertR  Thanks for this detailed change request.  I also have submitted feedback to Evernote on this, so that is another vote...