(Archived) search syntax for entries older than specified range

[flyingdesigner 0]

Hi All,

Is there a way to do a search for notes older than a certain time range. IE, I'd like to do a search for notes older than one month old as part of my weekly reveiew. Any thoughts?

Thanks

[spg SCOTT 736]

Hi flyingdesigner, welcome to the forum

A good resource for search information:

http://dev.evernote.com/documentation/cloud/chapters/search_grammar.php

You can use variations of the created: search term.

For example, from the above page:

Note the negative before the search. This says to exclude everything created this month, therefore include everything before this month.

-created:month

Matches notes that were created before this month

You could also be more specific with the dates, replacing "month" with a specific date and combining them, as shown in the link.

Scott

[flyingdesigner 0]

Great. Thanks, now is there a way to perform that search excluding a particular notebook stack?

[spg SCOTT 736]

You're welcome

Unfortunately stacks, like notebooks, cannot be excluded, only included. (and only one at a time)

[flyingdesigner 0]

And I assume that multiple stacks can't be included?

[spg SCOTT 736]

Correct, stacks work the same as notebooks.

From the link:

Scope modifiers

notebook:[nb name] - will match notes in a notebook with the provided name. This must be the first term in the search. Name matching is case-insensitive. Since notebooks have exclusive relationships with notes, at most one notebook can be provided for the search.