Crappy search of notes by keywords in Evernote

[Jimmy Bionic 15]

The application is marvelous, but every time I try to search across my notes by using 2 consequitive keywords, it never produces the result I've been looking for. Is there any possibility of further improvement?

[jbenson2 2,149]

You don't mention

a.) what platform you are using or

b.) the problem you are encountering

So I will make a guess.

 

I find Evernote Windows search capability using keywords to be exceptionally accurate.

If you are using Evernote Windows, you can search two different ways.

 

1. )Search for 

Keyword1 Keyword2

This will find all notes that contain both keywords

Of course, if the keyword is a common word, Evernote will find a lot of notes.

 

And if the keywords are consecutive (separated by a single space)

2.) Search for

"Keyword1 Keyword2"

This will find notes that contain both keywords that are consecutive

[Jimmy Bionic 15]

Thanks, jbenson2, for prompt response. Actually I use both Android and Windows apps to sync my notes.

 

I am just curious whether there is any guide available on how to search in Evernote, specifically with the use of wildcards (like *) and so on ???

[gazumped 12,078]

Hi.  Go here - https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us - and type 'search' into the search box,  There are quite a few options...

[jbenson2 2,149]

A few search tips

 

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Negative Searches can be very powerful

 

Find every note that has a tag

tag:*

 

Find every note that does not have a tag

-tag:*

 

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Evernote searches do not work for the middle of a word.

 

Yes

Evern in Evernote

123 in 123456

 

No

rnote in Evernote

345 in 123456

 

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Here is a cheat sheet on Evernote searches

http://www.cheatography.com/senseful/cheat-sheets/evernote/

[Jimmy Bionic 15]

I take my words back about "crappy", search seems to work ok