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Update, 2024-01-08 when you right click a saved search, there is now a drop down to "edit search", "delete search", "remove from search" so maybe EN team has been listneing.

@Mike P yes, mostof my shortcuts are either notes, notebooks or stacks, depending on the project of the day. for most of those i just tag them with #pinned and save search/shortcut that tag -- so i don't have a screenful of shortcutted items.

@bmcl26 Thanks for confirming that , i'm on windows 10 and found i can do this on the web version but not on the deskapp. with a little experimenting, i think my last thought was the correct one -- i have somef really old saved searched i use over and over -- basically looks for tags:todo or words todox or #todo which is a way i capture stuff to put into my todo list. predates the task list in evernote which i don't use anyway. but... have another couple of saved searched for t reading stuff later -- and stuff for some client related work. i found that the option to delete those old saved searchedsdoesn't appear on the desktop, but do appear on the web app. the only thing they probably have in common is they were created on the legacy version even before there was a legacy version and somehow evernote has lost control of those saved searchs -- So tried creating new saved searches and the behavior is as you describe, works as advertised, but have a slew that predate my migration to legacy version and new version that seem to be corrupted -- but the good news seems i can delete them in the web app. so will have to delete and recreate about a dozen saved searches -- they are also better organized on the search bar in the web app but seem to be a search afterthought in the desktop app. appreciate everyone's ideas and suggestions -- as a whole they at least gave me a workaround even thought it seems that evernote has a glitch in this area

thanks @AlbertR -- we are on the same page, but as i've noted many times above, that three dot menu doesn't give me a "delete" option after i run a search, only an edit option we've been hunting for solutions, and my last idea was maybe since these were created in the legacy version, the new version doesn't handle them the same way as if they were natively created in the new version. @Mike P has suggested i see what happens on the web version -- hadn't thought of that as the web version is sucha hit or miss proposition most days -- takes five minutes to load for example - but headed there now.

and my problem is when i run a saved search and go to that three dot menu, i only get a note to "edit saved search", there is no "delete saved search option" doesn't matter how many times i run a saved search -- i never get the box you have above, only a edit save search option. it's just missing -- I"m wondering if is it possible that since some of these saved searched are "old" -- i.e. came from legacy version, the new version doesn't recognize them -- that's a thought -- i will create a new one and see - -but if true, then means i can never delete any of the "old ones" unless i reinstall legacy and delete them there. ugh

in windows 10, there isn't a saved search section in the LH panel, that doesn't exist -- did in windows legacy, but not in the new version. 10.63.3 and the three dot menu only offers "edit search" which only a rename opction - there is no delete option

ugh, so literally "rename", not "edit" -- although i've noticed that behavior in a few apps that are progressive web apps -- it must be an artifact that even though evernote has a "desktop" app, it's behaving like an "online app" -- the new version of microsoft outlook desktop is going to go thru a similar disaster in trying to create a progressive web app on the desktop -- lots of the desktop shortcuts and means and methods are being totally demised and discarded -- unfortunately it's the power user faithful who are affected the most.

Perfect -- just remapped that keystroke as it didn't work at first -- awesome -- thanks for your diligence and patience and helpful advice.

I thanks, -- that's a good workaround -- no easy way to get to that full notebook view however -- you have to go to the sidebar to open that view -- hence the use case of being pretty far down the notebook list (100 notebooks deep working on a syllabus for example) and having to get that notebook view open -- you have to go back up the sidebar to open that view (again taking your hand off the keyboard to get there) Unless i'm missing something easy to get there. that full notebooks view doesn't come up in Global ctrl-Q search -- nice if it would. appreciate the help very much -- did learn something useful.

@PinkElephant Sorry, i wasn't clear. the new way of doing this with an F2 key s pretty inefficient The way i use notebooks means they often need to be renamed- see tiago forte's P.A.R.A. system for example. not sure you can judge how i use evernote as we don't know each other well enough for that have used it since it was a beta program ages ago. so have a pretty good idea of what it is/was/should be again. there are places to embrace tags but lots of articles of why tags are tags and notebooks are notebooks but i don't need tags except as a global taxonomy notebooks are a better way to organize what i'm doing . using Tags don't behave the same way in all platforms -- different on the web versus clipper versus desktop app versus mobile and different enough that they shouldn't be oprimary way of organizing. There is no validation on tags so i bet you'll find lots of tags for the same thing spelled different ways as one example. but notebooks pretty much behave the same on all platforms. but back to F2 and renaming notebooks. . I'm not renaming 100 notebooks at a time, but lets say the current notebook i do want to rename and that i'm currently working on is 100 down from the top in a stack. to rename that in the new system with f2 as described by @Mike P -- (thanks for the tip mike) i have to navigate all the top notebook view to get a notebook list, then find a way with multiple tabs to highlight it and then press f2 -- which kinda defeats the purpose of a shortcut F2 key -- That's all i'm saying. the new way is a convoluted way to get the f2 key to work -- much easier to have it rename editing in place in the LH side panel as it used to do . As it is now, F2 is pretty useless, you are forced to remove your hand fro the keyboard to right hand click the notebook name and rename as that's easier than the new way..

@Mike P able to replicate that behavior -- many thanks, that solves the missing "f2) but definitely a convoluted way to get there and not as handy as the old sidepanel notebook F2 edit in place. in this new behavior - easier to just use the right click three buttons in the side panel and rename because say you have 100 notebooks so you have to navigate to the top notebook view to find it -- scroll back down to the 100th notebook -- hit tab numerous times to highlight it and then press F2. again -- taking away the F2 in the sidepanel means easier to remove your hand from the keyboard and then right click the notebook name in the side pane. talk about breaking something that wasn't broken But again, thanks for the patience in tracking that down even if it doesn't solve the issue. it at least answers one question.

Hey @Mike P Thanks for the screenshot. That's what i see in the evernote legacy/classic/demised desktop version, for sure, but in the new desktop version 10.63.3 when i press the three dot menu i get this (no f2 as an option) I think this was confirmed by @Dave-in-Decatur

Thanks in legacy desktop version of evernote -, click a notebook on left side pane, click f2 and you are dropped into the notebook name to edit the notebook name -not the note itself. new version of evernote (after the total relaunch) no longer does this -- f2 now works like <tab> used to work in legacy version -- takes you to the first first note in the note list. why use f2 when tab works so intuitively like most UI in most desktop software versions am trying to migrate to to new version from legacy desktop simply because i know legacy will eventually go away -- so stuff that is still missing in new version is jarring.

I'm using v.10.63.3 and doesn't work like legacy. f2 does nothing. i think the legacy enthusiasts have given up and have gone to notion, obsidian, bear, tana, scrintal, ..... (insert here) unless i misunderstood your comment

thatnks @PinkElephant, can you provide some screenshots as i'm not seeing that behavior. 1) i can't figure out delete a search so that's problem one 2) when i edit a saved search -- you have to use a new name to save it -- understand that -- but that's not the same as editing an existing search, that's creating a new search. -- unless you can delete the original to save it to which goes back to #1