Consider: special characters are VITAL to differentiate tags into sorted hierarchies. Suppose I have ":3" to specify an Action, "^3" to specify a Status and "3" for a text tag. I want Evernote to show the tags in that order. And in Notes display they do. (Took a while to figure out the sort order by trial and error. C'mon, Evernote! Give us a support article on character sort orders. Yeah... plural. They're not the same in the individual tag display.)
But if I then want to search by Action (:3), I get ALL the Status results (^3) and text results (3) as well because search ignores special characters. Thanks for giving me WAY more than I need, Evernote. Now I must plod through the results for ":3"
This is a big fail. After all, no matter how many users plead for nested Notebooks, we are limited to Stacks with Notebooks in them. That leaves tags to do the heavy lifting. We can create a sort hierarchy, but then we can't use that SAME sort hierarchy in search. Huh?
So sad! I'm using Legacy because v10 still sucks at the serious data management and maintenance functions. It's like v10 was created for light users who never paid for Evernote in the first place. And not the power users (including corporates) who would pay for a power app. I'm grandfathered on Plus and won't consider an upgrade until Evernote at least shows some commitment to power users. Dear Ian Small: please fix.