sam20e

As a power user, I should be able to turn off this stop words feature - 

I should be able to use "and then reply back" kinda match-all keywords. 

Just now, jefito said:

I've put in a request to the forum admin, he may be able to do it.

awesome. Thank you

hi @jefito yes that's correct. This is what i wanted. I opened 2 threads by mistake and i think i deleted that thread accidentally.. is it possible for them to restore that forum thread?

Hi @jefito

Thank you for the clarification. However like u said searching for "in that case" (straight double quotes) did find those instances.. technically it should ignore those stop words and only display instances of "case". Am I right?

In that case stop word functionality is broken.

I will open a bug case reg curly quotes.

Thank you for helping out. You should become a staff member lol. They couldn't figure this out - no disrespect or anything like that. I do appreciate the solid product.

4 hours ago, jefito said:

So how do they do that? Press the Turbo button? Turn it to 11?

I mean, I understand what you're asking for, and why it's useful, but "improve their search engine speed" is one of those things that's easy to propose, but not necessarily easy to do.

Some of the more technical commentary from Evernote employee @rezecib here: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/110018-why-oh-why-is-there-no-literal-search-in-evernote/#comment-504507 and here: https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/94874-searching-for-exact-phrase-general/?tab=comments#comment-504506

 

@jefito thanks for those links. interesting topic. 

> So how do they do that? Press the Turbo button? Turn it to 11?

I dont know. I'm not a developer.  When we have 1000's of notes, we should be able to filter any word sequence we need.  example - gmail search. Most of my searches are exact. So how do we deal with it? and the proposed new feature request "Filter search results by exact phrase matches in the text, including stop words" is not yet up I guess? 

in that case they should improve their search engine speed.. limiting these search words not a ideal solution. its making our life more difficult to be honest. 

Hi there,

We have 1000's of saved notes and we used to search those notes very frequently. We normally don't use 1 word search. We will search with word sequence like this "in that case". So I cannot use the only word case here because it will show up 100's of results and i have to go through them one by one. However, if I only have 2-3 notes with this word sequence "in that case". So i tried using this sequence and evernote only filtered notes with word "case" ignoring "in that" so I contacted support team and this is what they told me :

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I can confirm that you're using the word "in" which is a stop word in searching. Stop words are ignored in searching, and these words may also affect the next words that you are trying to search when using quotation marks.

These are the list of Evernote's stop words: "a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by”, "for", "if", "in", "into", "is", "it", "no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "such", "that", "the", "their", "then", "there", "these", "they", "this", "to", "was", "will", "with"

This is a real inconvenience guys. Especially when we have to search for a specific word sequence. Can you please implement a feature where we can at least "disable" the use of these so called stop word?

Thanks