Mike P

I agree with you. There are however plenty of ways of avoiding using templates at all. If you have a notebook of "template notes", which can contain tags, you can then just duplicate or copy them. The only disadvantage is that you will probably want to manually change the creation date. Another alternative is to export your template note as an enex file and choose not to save the creation date. I put that enex file on my desktop. Double clicking (Windows) the enex file then creates the note in my default folder with the current time as creation date.

It's not obvious but you can click on the year (or month) to get a list. Not easy but easier than going back through each month If you need to go back earlier than 2015, click on 2015 and then click on 2015 in the date field

True. If I know the name of the tag and persevere with typing it does eventually come up in the "add filter" section of the main search. I don't really see that the issue is a separate section for tags. A separate section containing only one tag is not going to be any help either! I don't think it would. We should be able to add a filter in whichever way we choose. That should then be automatically added to the search as well as to the filter. This is what is supposed to happen, as evidenced by the fact that if you do a forced reload the tag appears under the search bar as explained above.

If I understand what you are saying, then it doesn't work for me. As noted above the thing that does work is opening the target note in a new window by ctrl clicking the link. The only time this works for me is if you also clear the search in the main window.

Another update. As noted above the trick to using search after filter is to ensure that the filter appears underneath the search bar. There is a trick that is working for me today (no saying it will work tomorrow!). If you do a force reload (ctrl+shift+R) the filter is added to the search and you can the search as normal. The only disdvantage of a reload is that it refreshes certain things you might not want refreshing. For me these are tag structure is collapsed Any filters on tasks are removed

Just other EN users here. If you want to communiucate directly to EN you will need to contact them directly. Also worth explaining why sorting by tags is important for your workflow and cannot be done in any other way.

The nearest you can do at the moment is to have EN web open at the same time. Peel off the tab and shrink it horizontally so it just shows the tasks (and the collapsed side bar)

If you edit the link, so that you can see the actual link, is it in internal link format (begins evernote:///) or a regualr weblink?

It depends. I assume EN expect you to update the header style. Then every time you use that header, within the note, you get the updated style. However when you turn this note into a template the header styles are reset back to default. The same happens if you copy or duplicate the note. So you would need to modify the header styles but not update them. They would then survive the templating process and if you wanted to you could then update the styles in the newly created note. Does this sound like madness? I agree, but my atempts to get EN to acknowledge that this is a problem have fallen on deaf ears.

Just one other thought. The filter in the tasks pop out searches in both the individual tasks and the containing note book names. So you could add your "tags" to the name of the notebook. I really like the EN tasks philosophy of having tasks in the notes with all the accompanying info needed and having the ability to then pull out all those tasks into a more traditional task list. The ability to pull out the tasks from a subset of notes filtered by tag (or any other criteria) would be an awesome additional feature.

Not directly. You would need to use the filter menu (or the equivalent advanced search syntax) to find notes that contain tasks and contain a specific tag. You would then need to look in the individual notes for the tasks. The equivalent search syntax for the search shown in the screen shot is tag:$action contains:taskNotCompleted

See this post for an interesting (to me anyway!) additional point.

@Jon lowbank @Steve2014 Just a quick update on this issue. If you add the initial tag by searching for it in the main search bar you can then search correctly. You need to make sure that the tag appears underneath the search bar If you add the tag in any other way (list below of ways I've tried) you don't get the tag incorporated into the search as shown in the screen shot. The main problem with this is that the main search is rubbish at finding tags! Other ways I've tried Clicking a tag in the sidebar clicking a tag in the main tags pop out window using the filter Searching for the tag using ctrl+Q (which btw does an excellent job of searching for tags if you add characters from the beginning of the tag name ) Filtering by a tag from the tag list at the bottom of a note Not really a great workaround but it helps me understand why very ocassionally it seemed to work for me - obviously the times I've added the tag this way.

Why not just type - at the beginning of the line?

You can't turn it off. Personally I don't think it should work within code blocks but it does. The good news is that if I copy it from the code block and paste it back into my IDE it returns it back to the original string.

What I'm asking is does it work on different networks.We don't know whether you are using it at home or work or using mobile data or what.

At the moment you are stuck with enter (or click) to edit the note and then ctrl+F to jump to the first occurence. Hitting enter will then cycle through the occurrences. I'm not sure that this is really that much more complicated than the compromise you are asking for, although I agree not as straightforward as legacy.

Obvious question but I don't think we've asked it. I assume the mobile devices don't work on either your own wifi or wifi elsewhere or data?

@Steve2014 Your process is exactly the same as mine. See my description here: My support ticket for this was raised on Oct 10, 2023 (10.63.3!!) and still no meaningful response. Don't really understand this comment. My AHK script (see further down the post above) chooses any tag from the sidebar and puts tag:tagName into the search bar. So instead of hovering over a tag and clicking it to use the filter you hover over the tag and run the ahk script. @gazumped The support ticket number is #3764929 incase you can work any magic!

Interesting. Provided my list is not filtered in any way the links will go to the correct note. It is only if they are filtered that I have problems. Obviously more complex than I had first thought.

Does the shortcut to minimise a window (Windows key + M) work? You might need to completely uninstall the app using something like revo uninstaller (free). Then reinstall the latest version (if you are not already using that)

I seem to remember doing a "force stop" in Android in the past when I had a similar problem. I'm guessing though, that is not going to work for you if you have already uninstalled and re-installed.

If you do open the search within the note (enter to move the focus to the body of the note and then ctrl+F (Windows)) the search term is pre-populated for you and it jumps to the first occurrence. No need to scroll through lots of pages but I agree not as convenient as your previous expereince.

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It isn't! EN has decided, in their infinite wisdom, that you have to search first and then filter (by tag or whatever). Please feed back directly to EN in whatever ways you can think of that this is ridiculous. If I am likely to need a more complex search I use the advanced search syntax and bypass the filter menu altogether. I have some autohotkey scripts that help me with this. More discussion in this thread: