(Archived) Search Enhancement Request

[Ra Osolage 0]

Hi,

 

I'll start with I love Evernote! Thank you for building such a wonderful product.

 

I'm considering using Ev as my journaling app. I've read a thread or two regarding how people use it for journaling. I find there's really only one thing lacking...

 

I'd like to be able to search by a specific time range, without the year constraint. Stated another way, I'd like to be able to see all entries I created for week 25 (or something like 7/1 - 7/12), regardless of year.

 

You see, I believe life follows a certain set of patterns regardless of year. I want to be able to basically find how I'm "feeling" or experiencing life in a given timeframe regardless of year. Kind of like a "did the same kind of thing happen the last 3 years straight?"

 

What I just mentioned was probably pretty easy. So, let me throw out the evolution: 

I'd also like to see something like, notes created between day 5 - 10, ever month or every quarter, regardless of year. Yes, I am that weird. I know of no other system that allows me to search that way, but I will FOREVER sing Ev's praises if you guys made it happen! 

 

[jefito 5,598]

You should be able to do something like you're looking for. The main reference is the Evernote Search Grammar page: http://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php

 

An example search expression: created:20130401 -created:20130701

This finds all notes were created on or after April 1st, 2013 and before July 1st, 2013, based on the client's timezone. I.e., the 2nd quarter, 2013

 

Adapt for your own usage.

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

Hi,

 

I'll start with I love Evernote! Thank you for building such a wonderful product.

 

I'm considering using Ev as my journaling app. I've read a thread or two regarding how people use it for journaling. I find there's really only one thing lacking...

 

I'd like to be able to search by a specific time range, without the year constraint. Stated another way, I'd like to be able to see all entries I created for week 25 (or something like 7/1 - 7/12), regardless of year.

 

You see, I believe life follows a certain set of patterns regardless of year. I want to be able to basically find how I'm "feeling" or experiencing life in a given timeframe regardless of year. Kind of like a "did the same kind of thing happen the last 3 years straight?"

 

What I just mentioned was probably pretty easy. So, let me throw out the evolution: 

I'd also like to see something like, notes created between day 5 - 10, ever month or every quarter, regardless of year. Yes, I am that weird. I know of no other system that allows me to search that way, but I will FOREVER sing Ev's praises if you guys made it happen! 

 

Doubtful EN would add this any time soon, if ever.  But depending upon how badly you want to do this, you could use tags or even possibly just keywords.  IE, create 52 tags for Weeks 1-52.  Assign the appropriate tag to the note.  Make the beginning of the note title the date in YYYYMMDD format.  When you want to see all entries for week 25, filter by the "Week 25" tag & sort my title so that all notes will fall in date order.  Or if your created date will always be the date of the note, you could sort by date created for a more accurate sort that includes time the note was created as well. 

 

To find the day of the month or quarter, regardless of year, again I would suggest tags or keywords.  Something like MM01-MM31 for the day of the month, QQ01-QQ90 for the day of the quarter and/or QQ01DD01-QQ01DD90 for the days of quarter one, QQ02DD01-QQ02DD90 for the days of quarter two, etc.  Using keywords saves creating all those tags.  But there could be other notes that would be false positives if you simply search on QQ45 to find all notes for the 45th day of a quarter.  Then to find all notes for the first five days of quarter 3, regardless of year, you'd search on the tags or keywords (whichever you elected to use, if you did this):

 

QQ03DD01, QQ03DD02, QQ03DD03, QQ03DD04, QQ03DD05

 

I suspect you'd spend half your day tagging the notes to accomplish this.  But like I said, it depends upon how badly you'd want to do this.

 

BTW, I use the QQ DD format to make the entry more unique for keywords & reduce false positives.  If you used tags, I'd just call them Q01 D01

[jefito 5,598]

@BnF, you are closer to the real request... mine definitely has year-specific stuff, which I didn't pick up on initially...

[Ra Osolage 0]

@BnF, thank you for the idea! Now to start tagging.