joaofmamaral@gmail.com

I second this request so freakin' bad. I love Evernote, but this problem of not existing a "-attachments" search option (and vice versa: "only attachments) is the only time it has let me down. I'm a masters student and I've been using Evernote as a research management tool with great reliability. Keeping all my study notes, pdf texts, research diary, field notes, and all my research material (hundreds of news articles). But this single problem is keeping me from also using it as a Content Analysys Tool (CA) as good enough as a dedicated software such as Nvivo and others like it. The solution offerd by @gazumped is making it possible to use it as such, but it has costed me two days of dedicated work to fix the issues to make it reliable again. One problem with copying all the notes in a notebook to a new one (besides the nuisance of having to do this) is that i either keep all the tags or delete all the tags for the newly created notes. If i keep them i'll double my counts for each tag, and that's not good. I'll have to keep halving the numbers everytime i'm analyzing them and crossing them with other numbers. If i delete all the tags, i'll have nothing to work with, unless i retag them as "tagname copy". And that just sucks till the end of days. Please fix this and be awesome again, Evernote! I'll trade this tweak for a tutorial on how i've been using Evernote as CA tool for my research! =D