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Jesus Christ, it must have gotten quite too late for me here tonight!

Sorry for the confusion. Yes, the title was wrong, I was looking for notes without tags. I edited it, thanks. And thanks a lot for the working answer!

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You can find them at this site:

http://www.evernote.com/about/developer/api/evernote-api.htm

But it is not user-friendly, so I have been piecing together tips from this forum and storing them in my Evernote notes.

I have 4 major ones right now. Every search I do gets stored in one of them.

My search examples for Evernote - people

My search examples for Evernote - places

My search examples for Evernote - things

My search examples for Evernote - dates

I also have a note for Evernote Keyboard Shortcuts

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  • 2 weeks later...

try searching for -tag:*

"tag" is one of the keywords for search.

"tag:abc" would find all notes tagged with abc.

"tag:*" would find all notes tagged with anything

"-tag:*" finds all notes that are NOT tagged with anything.

-tags will just find notes that don't have the word -tags in them somewhere

Hope this helps.

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  • 3 months later...

I'm having trouble mixing the tag: and the -tag: options

The problem occurs when I want to search on any tag in list A that does not have a tag from list B

For example:

I want to find all notes that are tagged "do-next" or "do-soon" but are NOT tagged with "done"

If I search as follows tag:do-next tag:do-soon -tag:done then I get all notes.

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EN doesn't support combining terms that way. If you search for tag:do-next tag:do-soon -tag:done, then you're searching for all notes that have do-next AND done but NOT done. If you search for "any: tag:do-next tag:do-soon -tag:done", then you're searching for all notes that either EITHER do-next OR done OR don't have done, which would result in a lot of notes.

You *might* be able to do something with a saved search, i.e., a two-step filter process, e.g., create a saved search that searches for "any: tag:do-next tag:do-soon". Select that saved search. Then, now that your notes are filtered, do a search in the search box for -tag:done. That should work in Windows 3.1, but I don't think it will work in Windows 3.5 (I recall reading a forum post about this type of operation no longer working.)

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