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When searching in Evernote, use search operators to narrow down your search.

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Topic

Search Operators.

When to use

When searching in Evernote, use search operators to narrow down your search.

Instructions

Just like with the basic search, you’ll enter the search operator in the search bar.

Here are the most common search operators:

 

notebook:  Allows you to search for notes stored in the specified notebook.

For example:

notebook: Templates will only search for notes stored in the Templates notebook.

 

tag:  Allows you to search for notes tagged with the specified tag.

For example:

tag: blog idea will return notes that have the tag “blog idea.”

 

-tag:  Allows you to search for notes not tagged with the specified tag.

For example:

-tag: blog idea will return notes that do not have the tag “blog idea.”

 

intitle:  Allows you to search within the title of the note.

For example:

intitle: testimonial searches for notes that contains “testimonial” in the title

 

any:  Will return notes that match any of the search terms. Without this operator, Evernote search will return only those notes that match all of the given search terms.

For example:

any: client long-term will return all notes containing either “client” or “long-term” (removing any: would return only notes containing “client” and “long-term”).

 

For a more comprehensive list of operators, check out this article.

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  • 00:04 In this lesson I'm going to show you a few examples of how you can use search
  • 00:09 operators when looking for a specific notes.
  • 00:12 So, just like with a basic search,
  • 00:15 you will enter the search operator in the search bar.
  • 00:19 So, if you want to search specific notebook, then put the word notebook,
  • 00:23 put colon and write the name of your notebook.
  • 00:31 And you can see that whenever the name of the notebook has more than one word,
  • 00:36 you will need to put it into the quotation marks so
  • 00:38 that Evernote knows which notebook you are referring to.
  • 00:43 And then enter the word that you are looking for.
  • 00:46 So right here in the middle, you can see that Evernote collected for
  • 00:50 me all the notes in the first notebook that have the words tags in it.
  • 00:59 You can search for notes that are tagged with a specific tag.
  • 01:02 And for that, you'll put the search operator tag colon and
  • 01:07 the name of the tag.
  • 01:09 Hit Enter, and here you see Evernote found for me all the tags and
  • 01:14 all the notes tagged with the tag business.
  • 01:19 You can also search for notes that do not have a specific tag.
  • 01:24 And for that, all you need to do is put hyphen before the search operator.
  • 01:30 Hit Enter and you can see that all these notes are not tagged business.
  • 01:37 You can also search titles of the notes.
  • 01:41 And for that, search operator is intitle, then colon and
  • 01:46 with the keyboard that you're looking for.
  • 01:52 Here you can see that I have two notes that have the word, tags, in the title.
  • 01:58 So in the same exact way,
  • 01:59 you will use different search operators to narrow down your search.
  • 02:05 In the cheat sheets that comes out with this lesson, you will
  • 02:10 see a more extensive list of search operators that you can look at and test.
  • 02:16 See which ones you find most useful, and
  • 02:20 I'm sure that once you get used to this, you will find that
  • 02:23 it will save you a great amount of time as you search for something.

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