(Archived) How to hide notes with help of saved search?

[HerbyDE 101]

Often I have too many notes in a sub notebook and it would be nice to "hide" a pile of notes with a search paramter.

I tried to give some notes a special tag (say: "archive") and to make a saved search "-tag:archive"

 

This works in the actual notebook, but the syntax fo the saved search is "notebook:project123 -tag:archive".

If I try this in an other notebook of course it rolls back to the first notebook.

If I use only "-tag:archive" the search uses all notes.

 

Best would be a placeholder like "notebook:[[aktual notebookname]] -tag:archive". Or Evernote would finally allow one level more in notebook stacks ...

 

Any idea to reduce the long list of notes beside the things like "don't use notebooks and use only a tag structure"?

 

Thank you again for hints! :-)

[gazumped 12,215]

Could you exclude the unwanted notes by adding a date parameter to select for 'notes in the last week/ month/ year'?