Everything in Evernote is searchable, including the contents of notes, notebooks, tags, and attachments. Evernote's search lets you get really granular, but this just means you have a lot of ways to find what you are looking for.
You can search for notes and notebooks by:
- Keywords or tags
- Contact info in business cards
- Handwritten or typed text in photos
- Text in attached documents and PDFs
- Words spoken in audio recordings and video attachments, using their transcripts
- Notebooks other colleagues have shared
- Team members who know about a topic at your company
- Notes related to internet search results (with Evernote Web Clipper)
You can search within your entire Evernote account, or filter by notebook, creation or update date, and even the type of content they contain. If you use a particular search frequently, you can save and add it to your shortcuts for quick access. We also offer advanced search syntax for even more targeted searching, as well as our AI-powered search.
How to search notes, notebooks, and chats
- Search for notes: Type your search terms in the search field located near the top of the screen, then press Enter/Return to run the search. Results show the line where your keyword matched, and opening a result takes you to the first match in the note with Find in Note already open, so you can jump between matches. Matches inside images, PDFs, and audio or video transcripts are highlighted too. Learn more in Search overview.
- Search for notebooks: Select Notebooks from the left navigation menu and enter your search terms in the search field.
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Search suggestions
The search feature in Evernote automatically lists recent searches, saved searches, and suggest tags and notebooks as you are typing based on the terms you enter in the search field.
Search options
To narrow down the scope of your search, filter by notebook, creation or update date, or the type of content they contain (audio, images, etc.)
Search results also show you where the match was found. If your search term appears in an image, a PDF, or the transcript of an audio or video recording, that match is highlighted both in the note list and inside the note itself.
More tips
More ways to find what you are looking for in Evernote:
- Saved searches: Save search terms and filters you use frequently as shortcuts for quick access. Learn more
- Shortcuts: Create and save links to notes, notebooks, and frequently searched tags or terms. Learn more
- Advanced searches: Use special search terms for more detailed searches. Frequently used combinations of these search terms can be saved and reused. Learn more
Note: currently, search only looks for partial matches of the words from the beginning of the word, while partial matches towards the end and in the middle of the word will not be displayed in the results. For example, by searching for "ball", you can expect to find notes containing words like "ballmachine", which is a prefix match, but not words like "softball", which is a suffix match.
Keywords:
- experts
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- related results
- search attached files
- search evernote business
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