(Archived) Search function: what are the limitation ?

[Mata Hari 15]

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 ?

[jbenson2 2,147]

I tried to search special characters like ! or = etc, it is not working

Evernote does not search for special characters, not does it search for letters in the middle of a word.

• Search for Evern will find Evernote
  Search for rnote will not find Evernote

Another search on the title of a note did not work either

EN cannot find notebook title

• Just substitute abc or "abc def" with the search term
  Intitle:abc
  or
  Intitle:"abc def"

Another search on TWO ITEMS found TWO or ITEMS or TWO ITEMS

I wanted only TWO ITEMS

A 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 search

http://www.evernote.com/about/kb/article/advanced-search?lang=en

Here is a link to a lot of stuff on Search Grammar

http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/api/evernote-api.htm#_Toc277181469

[Mata Hari 15]

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 ITEMS

Yet another problem is that repeted search is not possible unless you save manually the search

It is not user-friendly.

[jbenson2 2,147]

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

[Mata Hari 15]

To find the Notebook name, search for notebook:abc

Suppose you have a hierchy like Notebook Notebook Notebook

So which Notebook will be found if you search notebook: notebook ?

It should find all three, but it does not.

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

To find the Notebook name, search for notebook:abc

Suppose you have a hierchy like Notebook Notebook Notebook

So 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.

[Mata Hari 15]

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.

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

You cannot search a Stack name.

Yes you can.

Stack:"stack name"

You seem to be posting a lot of incorrect information.

[Mata Hari 15]

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 ?

[jbenson2 2,147]

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.

[Mata Hari 15]

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 results

You 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.

[engberg 89]

I just searched for the number 14 in the Mac client, and found two notes that had that number:

[Mata Hari 15]

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.

[Metrodon 2,184]

are you still here?

[jefito 5,589]

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.