Advanced search syntax gives you the ability to search your notes by special commands, like the date they were created, the type of content they contain (audio, images, etc.)—even where they are stored. Here's a table of the most common search operators and examples of how to use them.
Tips:
- Upper and lower case are ignored. For example, Brave and brave return the same results.
- 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.
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intitle: |
Searches within the title of the note. |
intitle:coffee searches for notes whose title contains "coffee". |
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notebook: |
Searches for notes stored in the specified notebook. |
notebook:Finance will only search for notes within the 'Finance' notebook. |
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stack: |
Searches for notes stored in the specified notebook stack. |
stack:Contracts will only search for notes within the 'Contracts' notebook stack. |
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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. |
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-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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 OR source:web.clip7 OR source:mobile.share.extension will return all notes added using Web Clipper. (Note: This particular example uses Boolean search) |
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todo: |
Searches for notes containing one or more checkboxes. |
todo:true will return all notes containing a checkbox that is checked. todo:false will return all notes containing a checkbox that is not checked. todo:* will return all notes containing a checkbox, regardless of whether or not it is checked. |
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encryption: |
Searches for notes that include text that has been encrypted with Evernote's built-in encryption system. |
encryption: Note: This operator does not require additional values. |
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contains: |
Searches for notes by type of content they contain. |
contains:url will return all notes containing a URL.
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Boolean search
Boolean search uses operators that can combine or exclude certain terms in a search query. In Evernote, you can search using the operators AND, OR, NOT, and ( ). To learn more, visit Use Boolean search for targeted search results.
For more information on the full library of Evernote search operators, visit our Search Grammar specifications.
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