braintoniq 11 Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 I'm seeing how powerful Saved Searches could be, but I'm a little confused about how to 'write' them. Is there a simple how-to on saved searches? I'm trying to find all notes that do NOT have one particular tag (called where). Link to comment
ed_in_nj 3 Posted April 29, 2011 Share Posted April 29, 2011 I've followed the links above but I'm having trouble creating a saved search...what I'm trying to do is: create a saved search that returns notes from a given notebook, for example the notebook "personal". What I've done is this:In the search area type "notebook:personal" ... this results in all the notes in my personal notebook being displayed (as expected). However the option "New Saved Search" in the File menu is grayed out. Any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks for any reply.-EdPS: if I change the search box to "notebook:personal a" then the search returns all notes within the "personal" notebook that contain the letter "a". Of course this contains most, if not all, the notes in the personal notebook, but the interesting thing is: now the "New Saved Search" option is active. Link to comment
braintoniq 11 Posted April 29, 2011 Author Share Posted April 29, 2011 It looks like a Saved Search has to contain a tag. If I do the same kind of search, for just "notebook:(one of my notebooks)" then the Save feature is also grayed out. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted April 27, 2011 Level 5* Share Posted April 27, 2011 Knowledge base topic: https://www.evernote.com/about/kb/article/saved-searches?url=article/mac-saved-searches.Another on search operators: https://www.evernote.com/about/kb/article/advanced-search?lang=en.To find all notes that do not have the tag "where", the search is: "-tag:where" Link to comment
braintoniq 11 Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 Thank you, jefito. That helps a lot. Two smaller things: 1. so commas are not needed between each operator? For instance, do I write notebook:"Action Pending" -tag:1-Now -tag:2-When or, notebook:"Action Pending", -tag:1-Now, -tag:2-When And related to this, 2. It seems that if a tag has a space in it, like Action Pending, then the operator needs to have quotation marks around them, as I've done in the two syntaxes above. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,586 Posted April 27, 2011 Level 5* Share Posted April 27, 2011 1: no commas; use spaces to separate2: correct: for tags with spaces, you must enclose them in quotation marks Link to comment
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I'm seeing how powerful Saved Searches could be, but I'm a little confused about how to 'write' them.
Is there a simple how-to on saved searches?
I'm trying to find all notes that do NOT have one particular tag (called where).
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