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How to Use Evernote’s Advanced Search Syntax

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  • Full Title: How to Use Evernote’s Advanced Search Syntax
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  • URL: http://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313828

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  • Multiple words return only results containing all the words. For example, world new brave returns results with all 3 words anywhere in it.
  • Quotation marks return results with an exact match. For example, “brave new world” returns only results with those 3 words in that exact sequence.
  • An asterisk at the end of a word returns results with a minimum of those letters. For example, brav* returns results containing brave, bravo, bravado, etc.
  • intitle:
  • any: Searches for notes that match any of the search terms listed. Without this operator, Evernote search will return only those notes that match all of the specified search terms. any: pizza beer will return all notes containing either “pizza” or “beer” (removing this operator would return only notes containing “pizza” and “beer”).
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  • tag: Searches for notes tagged with the specified tag. tag:medical will return notes that have the tag “medical”. Note: Use tag:* to return all notes with tags.
  • -tag: Searches for notes not tagged with the specified tag. -tag:medical will return notes that do not have the tag “medical”. Note: Use -tag:* to return all notes without tags.
  • created: Searches for notes created on or after the date specified. Note that the date specified must be formatted like this: YYYYMMDD (where YYYY is the 4-digit year, MM is the 2-digit month, and DD is the 2-digit day), or as a date relative to the current date (e.g., day-1 to represent yesterday, week-2 to represent two weeks ago, etc.) created:day-2 will return notes that were created in the last two days. created:20151218 will return notes created on or after December 18, 2015.
  • updated: Searches for notes updated on or after the date specified. If a note hasn’t been updated since the date it was created, the ‘updated’ date will be the same as the ‘created’ date. updated:day-2 will return notes that have been updated in the last two days.
  • resource: Searches for notes that contain specific types of media (audio, images, etc.). resource:application/pdf will return all notes that contain a PDF file. resource:image/jpeg will return all notes containing an embedded JPEG image. resource:audio/* will return all notes that contain some type of audio file.
  • source: Searches for notes by the application or other source used to create them (e.g., ‘mail.smtp’ for notes added via email, ‘web.clip’ for notes added using Web Clipper, etc.). source:mobile.* will return all notes created on a mobile application of some type. source:web.clip will return all notes added using Web Clipper.
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