Search for "WA" in place of "wa"

[TdeV 88]

Is there a way I can search for notes which contain "WA" (Washington) that doesn't return "wa" (was, water, way).

 

I have created tags for counties, e.g. "Coos.County.OR" but I'd like to see how many notes I have for Oregon.

 

Thanks.

[kle 6]

what I do in a case like this is enter "wa " - note the spaces inside the quotes - this should return only instances of wa that have spaces around it - not inside a word.

[TdeV 88]

In this case I have a tag which terminates with "wa" with no spaces.

[jbenson2 2,147]

In this case I have a tag which terminates with "wa" with no spaces.

 

1.) To search for the tag wa, use:

tag:wa

 

2.) To search for the text wa use KLE recommendation mentioned above.

 

 

What I would do is either:

a.) create a tag for the county and a tag for the state or

b.) add the full state name as a keyword at the bottom of the notes.

[TdeV 88]

So, in the case the tag is "Coos.County.OR" I can search for "tag:or" ?

[jbenson2 2,147]

So, in the case the tag is "Coos.County.OR" I can search for "tag:or" ?

 

No, you can only search for the preceding letters. Nothing in the middle or at the end.

But a wildcard * would give you some flexibility with the tag "Coos County, OR"

 

Yes

tag:"Coos County, OR"

or

tag:Coos*

 

No

tag:or

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

 

I would suggest individual tags for the county and the state. For example

 

tag:"coos county"

and

tag:or

 

To reduce confusion, I would go with

tag:oregon

 

 

There are several other options you could use depending on what you want to accomplish and the number of counties you expect to eventually end up with. 

[TdeV 88]

The difficulty of creating a tag for Oregon is that I must independently verify that all notes tagged with "Coos County" have also been tagged with "Oregon"; it seems counterproductive for a "smart" software app.

[jbenson2 2,147]

The difficulty of creating a tag for Oregon is that I must independently verify that all notes tagged with "Coos County" have also been tagged with "Oregon"; it seems counterproductive for a "smart" software app.

 

There is a way Evernote can double check for missing tags. I use this technique occasionally to look for errors in tagging and keep my database cleaned up. Adding the negative sign in front of tag can be very powerful for a variety of searches.

 

Search

tag:"Coos County" -tag:Washington

 

 

As I mentioned, there are other methods, but I did not want to go down those roads if you were keen on tags.

 

Personally, I would add the county name to the end of the note. It would act as a keyword. And I would purposely misspell the word county for additional search capability. For example, if I add Coos Countyx as the key word, I could search for Coos and find all the notes pertaining to Coos County. If I wanted to find all notes that pertain to any county, I could search for Countyx.

[CalS 5,280]

The difficulty of creating a tag for Oregon is that I must independently verify that all notes tagged with "Coos County" have also been tagged with "Oregon"; it seems counterproductive for a "smart" software app.

If you are talking in terms of tags as opposed to notes that contain OR, you could just rename your compound tags to OR.xxxxxx.County and then do a tag:OR* search which should return all of your notes with an Oregon county tag.