sportsnapper 1 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I'm having trouble finding things. On my iPad, I did a goggle search for evernote scansnap s1300and the first (no ad) hit was an Evernote discussion "scansnap s1300 profile setup" Back at my mac later I searched the forum, using the forum radio button in search, for scansnap s1300and the forum didn't turn up the same thread. The google search on the forums works, but I really don't like that format. So, what did I do wrong, and what else am I missing?? Link to comment
BurgersNFries 2,407 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I'm having trouble finding things. On my iPad, I did a goggle search for evernote scansnap s1300and the first (no ad) hit was an Evernote discussion "scansnap s1300 profile setup"Back at my mac later I searched the forum, using the forum radio button in search, for scansnap s1300and the forum didn't turn up the same thread.The google search on the forums works, but I really don't like that format.So, what did I do wrong, and what else am I missing??I don't know why, but the message board software search is not very good. (This message board, like most others, is a package. It's not written by/for Evernote). Using the Google "site search" (the default) is very good b/c it's powered by Google. I think the format is nice & it opens any link you click in a new window and/or you can return to the first window & view other results. If you don't like that format, you can simply go directly to Google & use it the traditional way. Link to comment
Level 5 jbenson2 2,146 Posted February 5, 2014 Level 5 Share Posted February 5, 2014 and the forum didn't turn up the same thread. The google search on the forums works, but I really don't like that format. So, what did I do wrong, and what else am I missing?? The forum search issue has been raised several times by other forum users.Even with the default forum setting for Google, the results are still questionable at best. I have found the better alternatives are to: 1.) Visit this forum regularly, capture relevant and interesting notes direct to my Evernote program for fast retrieval2.) Go to the Google.com on the web and search - the results will be more consistent and in a larger viewing area. Link to comment
sportsnapper 1 Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Thanks for the suggestions. I guess Google as an external search engine is the way to go. @jbenson2 - I'm doing that , though not sure I'll be that regular a visitor - it's more a matter of solving my problems then moving on until I hit another issue with the way evernote works. Probably tomorrow if my xerox 1300s turns up Link to comment
J-Mac 19 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I use the Google.com search with "site:" prefacing the forum URL. As mentioned by others, the forum search here is deficient and the Google site search for the forum doesn’t show the date. I can't handle the search without a date showing. Invariably I click on the first few results that sound relevant and discover that the post is for an older version of Evernote and is no longer useful. It's a shame because the forum has a lot of good information and I know that a lot of users don’t know how to search the forum directly from Google.com. Jim Link to comment
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