(Archived) Saved Search Syntax - exclude a Notebook?

[rlobrecht 31]

I have a notebook for archived noted. I'd like to exclude this notebook from several of my saved searches. Is this possible? If so, what would the syntax be? If not, could I get this added to the feature request list?

Thanks,

Rick

[engberg 89]

If your notebook was named "Ideas for Songs", you could exclude this from your search by adding this to your query:

-"Ideas for Songs"

[rlobrecht 31]

Thanks. I wasn't expecting something quite so simple.

[crane 40]

I tried that tip, and it doesn't exclude anything for me.

[rlobrecht 31]

Unfortunately, I'm at home on my Mac, which doesn't have the same textual search syntax, so I haven't been able to test it. I'll test it tomorrow when I'm back at the office.

[engberg 89]

crane's right, I mis-remembered the search grammar. What I said won't work at all, sorry.

Searches are either in a single notebook, or they are across all notebooks. This reflects the behavior of the UI, and the bias towards intersection (AND) over union (OR) in our search engine (and other consumer search interfaces).

[rlobrecht 31]

Bummer. How can we request enhancements/new features?

Thanks,

Rick

[crane 40]

the bias towards intersection (AND) over union (OR) in our search engine (and other consumer search interfaces).

Just out of curiosity, what are these "other consumer search interfaces" that focus on AND? Way way back, it was stated that you were mimicing google search (e.g., we lost the ability to search for any non-alphanumeric characters, like @). But Google most certainly has a stronger search interface, e.g., AND, OR, NOT, and any combination with brackets.

[engberg 89]

Every search interface I can think of defaults to AND behavior, as does ours. I'm just saying that (notebook:Foo AND notebook:Bar) will always result in an empty set, by definition. So the default conjunction behavior just results in a confusing result with multiple notebooks.

[crane 40]

Yes, but what I really want is -notebook:Foo -notebook:Bar blah blah blah

You've already got AND and a bit of NOT. With that, I can do great things. Except for the fact that I'm limited to no more than one notebook in any saved search.