I obviously like Evernote as I'm going on 3 years with it now, but I've never full (or even partially for that matter), understood search. Instead, I've always relied on the Spotlight to find my notes, which is so much more accurate, it's ridiculous.
For instance, after seeing "improved search" in the release notes, I just downloaded the new version (5.5 Beta 2).
For my first search I looked for a document "Air-Way EDI". I have over 20 notes with this phrase prominent throughout the note, including 15 documents tagged with the "Air-Way EDI" tag.
Well, when I search via Evernote, 504 notes are returned, absolutely none containing this exact phrase in the first 50 or so.
Instead, what I get is page after page of irrelevant notes, such as those with the string "air" in the URL.
When I switch over and search the exact same phrase via spotlight the correct notes come immediately up, the most prominently being my "Air-Way EDI Table of Contents" note.
Unfortunately, search in Evernote remains, for all intents and purposes, useless. Especially for those with very large note collections. 504 results are just too many to comb through, especially when no priority is given for notes with tags or titles of the exact phrase.
I'm just curious, what kind of algorithm are you guys using? Are you at liberty to say?
Perhaps I could make use of the search if I knew the magic words to say to get my notes returned properly. As it is, Evernote search remains little more than a curiosity. Little more than a head-scratcher and frequent "are these guys kidding?" declaration.
Is there any way you can kind of, I don't know, reverse-engineer Spotlight's algorithm and implement it with Evernote?
Or shall it forever remain a mystery of the IT world?
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Rex 13
Hey Guys,
I obviously like Evernote as I'm going on 3 years with it now, but I've never full (or even partially for that matter), understood search. Instead, I've always relied on the Spotlight to find my notes, which is so much more accurate, it's ridiculous.
For instance, after seeing "improved search" in the release notes, I just downloaded the new version (5.5 Beta 2).
For my first search I looked for a document "Air-Way EDI". I have over 20 notes with this phrase prominent throughout the note, including 15 documents tagged with the "Air-Way EDI" tag.
Well, when I search via Evernote, 504 notes are returned, absolutely none containing this exact phrase in the first 50 or so.
Instead, what I get is page after page of irrelevant notes, such as those with the string "air" in the URL.
When I switch over and search the exact same phrase via spotlight the correct notes come immediately up, the most prominently being my "Air-Way EDI Table of Contents" note.
Unfortunately, search in Evernote remains, for all intents and purposes, useless. Especially for those with very large note collections. 504 results are just too many to comb through, especially when no priority is given for notes with tags or titles of the exact phrase.
I'm just curious, what kind of algorithm are you guys using? Are you at liberty to say?
Perhaps I could make use of the search if I knew the magic words to say to get my notes returned properly. As it is, Evernote search remains little more than a curiosity. Little more than a head-scratcher and frequent "are these guys kidding?" declaration.
Is there any way you can kind of, I don't know, reverse-engineer Spotlight's algorithm and implement it with Evernote?
Or shall it forever remain a mystery of the IT world?
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