Mata Hari 14 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 I tried to search special characters like ! or = etc, it is not workingAnother search on the title of a note did not work eitherEN cannot find notebook titleAnother search on TWO ITEMS found TWO or ITEMS or TWO ITEMSI wanted only TWO ITEMSEtc. I wonder what other limitations the search function has ? Link to comment
engberg 89 Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 I just searched for the number 14 in the Mac client, and found two notes that had that number: Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,146 Posted April 10, 2011 Level 5 Share Posted April 10, 2011 I tried to search special characters like ! or = etc, it is not workingEvernote does not search for special characters, not does it search for letters in the middle of a word.Search for Evern will find EvernoteSearch for rnote will not find EvernoteAnother search on the title of a note did not work eitherEN cannot find notebook titleJust substitute abc or "abc def" with the search termIntitle:abcorIntitle:"abc def"Another search on TWO ITEMS found TWO or ITEMS or TWO ITEMSI wanted only TWO ITEMSA phrase, like TWO ITEMS, has to be put inside quotes. "TWO ITEMS"Etc. I wonder what other limitations the search function has ?Here is a link to Evernote's knowledgebase for searchhttp://www.evernote.com/about/kb/article/advanced-search?lang=enHere is a link to a lot of stuff on Search Grammarhttp://www.evernote.com/about/developer/api/evernote-api.htm#_Toc277181469 Link to comment
Mata Hari 14 Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 Just substitute abc or "abc def" with the search term Intitle:abc or Intitle:"abc def"That will still not find the Notebook title (the note title is found, not the Notebook)A phrase, like TWO ITEMS, has to be put inside quotes. "TWO ITEMS"I tried this many times. The result is not just TWO ITEMS but also TWO and also ITEMSYet another problem is that repeted search is not possible unless you save manually the searchIt is not user-friendly. Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,146 Posted April 10, 2011 Level 5 Share Posted April 10, 2011 That will still not find the Notebook title (the note title is found, not the Notebook)To find the Notebook name, search for notebook:abc Link to comment
Mata Hari 14 Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 To find the Notebook name, search for notebook:abcSuppose you have a hierchy like Notebook Notebook NotebookSo which Notebook will be found if you search notebook: notebook ?It should find all three, but it does not. Link to comment
BurgersNFries 2,407 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 To find the Notebook name, search for notebook:abcSuppose you have a hierchy like Notebook Notebook NotebookSo which Notebook will be found if you search notebook: notebook ?It should find all three, but it does not.You cannot have nested notebooks. So the question you raise (if I understand it correctly) is moot. If you want to search through three notebooks out of 20, make them a stack. Link to comment
Mata Hari 14 Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 The possible hierarchy seems to be: Stack NoteBoook Notes That seems to be the maximum hierarchy depth (i e 2 steps above Notes)You cannot search a Stack name. Link to comment
BurgersNFries 2,407 Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 You cannot search a Stack name.Yes you can.Stack:"stack name"You seem to be posting a lot of incorrect information. Link to comment
Mata Hari 14 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 This means you have to know the name of the stack exactly. If you have a large hierarchy, you may not know that.If you have perhaps 100 stacks, I want to see the stacks collapsed. Is there a command for that ? Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,146 Posted April 11, 2011 Level 5 Share Posted April 11, 2011 This means you have to know the name of the stack exactly. If you have a large hierarchy, you may not know that.If you have perhaps 100 stacks, I want to see the stacks collapsed. Is there a command for that ?After reading your other "questions", I doubt you currently have, or will have, anywhere near 100 stacks. Link to comment
Mata Hari 14 Posted July 20, 2011 Author Share Posted July 20, 2011 Sure, but that is not what I am saying. Suppose you search for "14" and it is inside 2114 or !x14x then EN will not find it.EN serach grammer is a whole science requiring a learning time of several hour to read, test, get familiar with it, discover bugs and limitations etc. This is not acceptable. Compare this to Word ; you need no learning time at all. And it works. Link to comment
Level 5* Metrodon 2,183 Posted July 20, 2011 Level 5* Share Posted July 20, 2011 are you still here? Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted July 20, 2011 Level 5* Share Posted July 20, 2011 Sure, but that is not what I am saying. Suppose you search for "14" and it is inside 2114 or !x14x then EN will not find it.Yes, this is known; the search grammar does only prefix matching. The search function for individual notes (Ctrl+F) will find internal matches, but that's no consolation if you can't find the notes that have that match in the first place. Link to comment
Mata Hari 14 Posted May 17, 2011 Author Share Posted May 17, 2011 I could not search numbers either. F ex search 2011 is not possible. Not in Mac. Why not ?Try to search 2011 and YEAR2011; EN will find YEAR2011 but not 2011. Not in Mac, not in Windows.EN also returns Notes with no search results highlighted. It could return perhaps 10 Notes and only one of them has highilighted the search resultsYou have to search the others manually. And it is not sure you will find anything.I have the latest release, 2 1 1 , and I see nothing new. WHere are the news ?You also wrote I should search for TWO ITEMS as "TWO ITEMS". It works only in Windows, not Mac.And as said, many times the search results are not highlighted so I don't have much use of this. Link to comment
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I tried to search special characters like ! or = etc, it is not working
Another search on the title of a note did not work either
EN cannot find notebook title
Another search on TWO ITEMS found TWO or ITEMS or TWO ITEMS
I wanted only TWO ITEMS
Etc. I wonder what other limitations the search function has ?
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