How to search for all scanned business cards.

[arozbiz 2]

In Evernote (I'm using the Mac version), is there special syntax for searching for all business cards? Obviously I can search for "intitle:"business card"", but, in case I've edited the title of some business cards to not have "business card" in them, is there search grammar I can use to retrieve all notes that were created with Evernote's business-card scanner?

 

Thanks for the help!

 

-Alan

[charboyd 272]

You should be able to apply tags to these notes and use the Evernote Search Grammar: https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/search_grammar.php

[gazumped 11,665]

It may help to narrow your search if you look up Evernote's resource search syntax - that will help you find PDF,  JPG or PNG attachments (amongst other things).  Look for the file type used by the business card feature.

[charboyd 272]

Tested this out and was able to find all scanned Business Cards by creating a custom search "from mobile" and "containing an attachment" - though this could come up with extra stuff that isn't just business cards.

 

Hope this helps

[arozbiz 2]

Thanks to everyone for the very useful suggestions. Should get me most of the way there. Am surprised, though, that there's not a dedicated note type to search by, since Evernote clearly treats business cards (in terms of formatting) very differently than every other type of card.

[tg2000 0]

On 9/23/2014 at 3:47 AM, arozbiz said:

Thanks to everyone for the very useful suggestions. Should get me most of the way there. Am surprised, though, that there's not a dedicated note type to search by, since Evernote clearly treats business cards (in terms of formatting) very differently than every other type of card.

too right

[Pascal Held 18]

There is a dedicated content type for business cards. You can search for 

contentClass:evernote.contact*

to find all your business cards.