waterwalker23 1 Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Hello! I'm trying to find how I can search for all notes / notebooks authored by a specific person. Is this possible? How? Thanks in advance!! Scott Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted March 15, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted March 15, 2015 Per EN, there is a search term Author: which you could try. For example, Author:"First Last". If that doesn't work you can add author as a column in list view, sort by it, and then scroll. I add the second option since the author: search did not work well for me. Could have been cockpit error, anyway the second method got me what I needed. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted March 15, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted March 15, 2015 Just note: the author: search is exact: it's case-sensitive, and you must match the entire "Author" field.You can use postfix wildcards, though That is, if your "Author" field contains "Bob Smith", then a search for "author:Bob" will fail, as will a search for "author:bob smith". A search for "äuthor:Bob*" will succeed. Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted March 15, 2015 Level 5* Share Posted March 15, 2015 Thanks for the detail Jeff, it was indeed user error in my case. Link to comment
waterwalker23 1 Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Thanks for your help!! Link to comment
eafpres 111 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 I'm having trouble with search using the author field. Here are an example that works, and one that doesn't. I suspect the latter has to do with the quoted name in the field, is there a way around this? field value for author in note information: TelecomLead <editor@telecomlead.com> search: author:telecomlead* returns all expected notes field value for author in note information: "Telecompaper" <headlines@mail.telecompaper.com> none of the following searches returns any results: author:telecompaper* author:mail.telecompaper* author:telecompaper.com author:mail.telecompaper.com author:"Telecompaper" author:"Telecompaper <headlines@mail.telecompaper.com>" author:headlines@mail.telecompaper* author:headlines@mail.telecompaper.com author:headlines* Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted April 26, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted April 26, 2017 23 minutes ago, eafpres said: I'm having trouble with search using the author field. Here are an example that works, and one that doesn't. I suspect the latter has to do with the quoted name in the field, is there a way around this? Can you look at notes and verify the author information is stored correctly Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted April 26, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted April 26, 2017 26 minutes ago, eafpres said: Field value for author in note information: "Telecompaper" <headlines@mail.telecompaper.com> I think that the double-quote character is the problem; you just can't search for those using the 'author' search, as far as I can tell, or with other Evernote searches either. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted April 26, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted April 26, 2017 3 minutes ago, jefito said: I think that the double-quote character is the problem; you just can't search for those using the 'author' search, as far as I can tell, or with other Evernote searches either. The backslash escape character ('\') may be used to escape a quotation mark within a quoted phrase. see Evernote Search Grammar for more details Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted April 26, 2017 Level 5* Share Posted April 26, 2017 1 hour ago, DTLow said: The backslash escape character ('\') may be used to escape a quotation mark within a quoted phrase. Yep, that's right; and good catch. Also, I went back and kicked this around a bit more and found out that a search for author:"\"Telecompaper" or author:"\"Telecom*" should do the trick after all, at least i the Windows client. This also works with intitle: as well, and possibly more. Link to comment
eafpres 111 Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 1 hour ago, jefito said: Yep, that's right; and good catch. Also, I went back and kicked this around a bit more and found out that a search for author:"\"Telecompaper" or author:"\"Telecom*" should do the trick after all, at least i the Windows client. This also works with intitle: as well, and possibly more. Thank you! I overlooked the backslash escape. Here is what works (I think this is due to the email address after): author:"\"Telecompaper*" Link to comment
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