Search for notes from notebook or with tag

[acidic68 2]

I would like to search for all notes that are EITHER located in a particular notebook OR have a particular tag. I tried to use the "any:" operator but with no success. Here's how I searched: 

any: notebook:INBOX tag:"c: customer"

Is it not possible?

[jbenson2 2,149]

It is not possible. You want to list all notes, regardless of the tag, from a specific notebook (INBOX) and all notes elsewhere that contain a specific tag (c: customer). But frankly, I don't understand why you would want all the irrelevant notes from your INBOX notebook included, unless you only have a few notes there.

 

Since notebooks have exclusive relationships with notes, at most one notebook can be provided for the search. I believe the notebook search has to be located before the  any:  search.

 

notebook:INBOX any: tag:"c: customer" tag:"another tag"

 

See more details in the Evernote Search Grammar link

https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php

 

There are some work arounds. Assigning tags and removing tags from groups of notes is relatively easy.

What I might do is assign a temporary tag to:

1.) all notes in the specific notebook INBOX 

2.) all notes that contain the specific tag

3.) search for the temporary tag

Afterwards, I would delete the temporary tag. The entire process would take less than a minute to accomplish.

 

Edit: actually, for step 1, I would search only for the notes that meet my criteria and assign the temporary tag to those few notes. then continue to step 2.