Comments on: Make Your Own Query Language with Evernote Tags

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:02:33 +0000

@Abi You can start experimenting with the wildcard character: *

It’s also important to know Evernote considers some characters word separators; same like a space between words. These word separators are more or less ignored.

Anyway, start with something like:

tag:@*

By: Abi Shepherd

Abi Shepherd — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:10:41 +0000

Hi. Is there a way in evernote for setting up a search query to find tags that CONTAIN certain text. For instance, I’ve set up tags that start with @ to be my need action tags. Some are @Email, @Out (things I need to do out) and I also wanted to set up some others that start with # to indicate what time of day or if weekday or weekend these jobs might be done. But I can’t find anything anywhere that tells me how to do this….

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:13:13 +0000

I too use notebooks and tags with often the same name.

By: strumpfhosen

strumpfhosen — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:42:57 +0000

I do have a couple of notebooks & tags that have the same name, such as “Journal”, “Mother”. Yes, it’s redundant but I’d rather be a bit redundant than have trouble finding my notes. If I want to find the note about my mother wanting some things from the grocery store, did I put it in the “journal” notebook & tag it “Mother” or did I put it in the “Mother” notebook & tag it “journal”? :shock: If I tag it “Journal” & “Mother”, it doesn’t matter which notebook it’s in, even if it accidentally got dropped into the “Auto info” notebook. I just search all notebooks looking for notes that are tagged “Journal” and “Mother”.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:41:51 +0000

Simple and effective, great!

Regarding grouping saved searches: that would be a great enhancement indeed.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:21:24 +0000

Chris, the screenshots are from the tag section.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:53:21 +0000

How are you grouping your saved searches? I am using Evernote 4 and I don’t see a way to group the saved searches. Are you grouping these in the Tags section? Regardless, this a great idea. I love it. Thanks for sharing.

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By: Loc

Loc — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:46:44 +0000

Ruud – browsing through all your tips and tricks with Evernote, Gmail and other tools in your quest for productivity and efficiency. Good stuff! We tried for a year to get Evernote to work w/in our scope and hated all the little tricks. Like this one. Search really needs to be better – especially once you cross the 1000+ note mark and 100’s of tags. There really should be a better filter system. Would love to chat w/ you further on your methods if you’d entertain the questions. We’re eager for more insight into the problem. Loc@digipim.com

By: Dave Yuhas

Dave Yuhas — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:07:34 +0000

This is brilliant. Thanks.