mikecox39 13 Posted August 21, 2016 Share Posted August 21, 2016 I am using the search syntax suggested by EV but when I search "tag: condo.assoc" I get notes that have tags not requested in that, specific, search query. How do I get results that have only the tag indicated in the syntax of my query? I know I can use the "-" option but I don't even know what tagged notes EN is going to produce, so I would have to do the search first, then go back and add the "-" option. Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted August 22, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 22, 2016 Putting a space character between the "tag:" and the tag name you're looking for is the problem. Remove the space, and you should be fine. Link to comment
mikecox39 13 Posted August 22, 2016 Author Share Posted August 22, 2016 It was the space that was the problem, thanks. When I left it out I got far better results, however, I did get one strange listing; see attached. Why would the last note appear in the results, with those totally unrelated tags? Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted August 22, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 22, 2016 23 minutes ago, mikecox39 said: It was the space that was the problem, thanks. When I left it out I got far better results, however, I did get one strange listing; see attached. Why would the last note appear in the results, with those totally unrelated tags? It seems to match to match your criteria of having tag:condo.assoc You haven't specified notes with additional tags are to be excluded (I have no idea how to do this). Maybe assign a temporary tag which you can exclude Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted August 22, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 22, 2016 6 hours ago, DTLow said: It seems to match to match your criteria of having tag:condo.assoc You haven't specified notes with additional tags are to be excluded (I have no idea how to do this). Maybe assign a temporary tag which you can exclude Syntax for that is: -tag:SomeTag Link to comment
mikecox39 13 Posted August 22, 2016 Author Share Posted August 22, 2016 12 hours ago, DTLow said: It seems to match to match your criteria of having tag:condo.assoc You haven't specified notes with additional tags are to be excluded (I have no idea how to do this). Maybe assign a temporary tag which you can exclude What I'm having trouble understanding is why, if my search query is specific, that EN delivers notes with unrelated tags, which I can't exclude unless I know EV is going to deliver them. Link to comment
Level 5* DTLow 5,736 Posted August 22, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 22, 2016 2 minutes ago, mikecox39 said: What I'm having trouble understanding is why, if my search query is specific, that EN delivers notes with unrelated tags, which I can't exclude unless I know EV is going to deliver them. Your search was specific - show me all notes with this tag It does not say - show me all notes with this tag and no other tags As an example, lets say I do a search for all notes tagged with daughter's name I would expect all notes, even if they're also tagged with school/church/art....... Link to comment
mikecox39 13 Posted August 22, 2016 Author Share Posted August 22, 2016 5 hours ago, jefito said: Syntax for that is: -tag:SomeTag I don't understand the search logic. Why does EV deliver results that are not requested? What is "SomeTag"? Link to comment
Level 5* CalS 5,280 Posted August 22, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 22, 2016 5 minutes ago, mikecox39 said: What I'm having trouble understanding is why, if my search query is specific, that EN delivers notes with unrelated tags, which I can't exclude unless I know EV is going to deliver them. EN does not have a search process that says find notes with only this tag. EN finds all notes that contain the tag, whether the notes have other tags or not.. Link to comment
Level 5* gustavgi 308 Posted August 22, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 22, 2016 3 hours ago, mikecox39 said: What I'm having trouble understanding is why, if my search query is specific, that EN delivers notes with unrelated tags, which I can't exclude unless I know EV is going to deliver them. What is the point of tagging a note with several tags then, if you don't want to note to show in the search results when searching for one of those tags? Do you mean that you want EN to show the last note only when you are searching for all 4 tags at once? Link to comment
mikecox39 13 Posted August 22, 2016 Author Share Posted August 22, 2016 5 minutes ago, gustavgi said: What is the point of tagging a note with several tags then, if you don't want to note to show in the search results when searching for one of those tags? Do you mean that you want EN to show the last note only when you are searching for all 4 tags at once? What I'm trying to get when I search a tag in a list of notes with only that tag. But I'm beginning to see that if there are other tags on the one I'm searching for they will have to come as well. How could it be otherwise Thanks Link to comment
Level 5* jefito 5,589 Posted August 23, 2016 Level 5* Share Posted August 23, 2016 4 hours ago, mikecox39 said: What I'm trying to get when I search a tag in a list of notes with only that tag. But I'm beginning to see that if there are other tags on the one I'm searching for they will have to come as well. How could it be otherwise Thanks When you do a search, it's just saying find all notes that match some set of criteria. For tags, you can express "note contains a tag named 'something'" (tag:something), note does not contain a tag named 'something'" (-tag:something), "note contains a tag beginning with 'something'" (tag:something*) or "note contains tags that do not contain 'something'" (-tag:something*). There's no way to express "note contains only tag 'something'"), or "note contains exactly 1 tag) (or two or three tags, etc.). A full query language would let you express such things; Evernote's search language does not. Some reading for you: https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php. Link to comment
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