Searching in Evernote Part 2

In the first Searching in Evernote post you learned about Evernote's search syntax. Using the same methods as in the last post you can also search dates. You can search for notes created or updated on a specific day, 30 days ago, this month, last year, etc.

The image below shows notes created last week using created:week-1

By using created:day or updated:day where day is replaced by any of the following day terms below will give you the notes you are looking for.

Day Term	Use with created:day or updated:day
Date	20141215 or 20140407
Today	day
Yesterday	day-1
30 days ago	day-30
This week	week
Last week	week-1
This month	month
Last month	month-1
This year	year
Last year	year-1

You can also search for notes by source by using the following:

To Find	Search Syntax
Email	source:mail.smtp
Web page	source:web.clip
Mobile	source:mobile.*
Application	source:app.*
Delicious	source:delicious

Reminders are also searchable using the following:

To Find	Search Syntax
Reminder done in the last 7 days	reminderdonetime:day-7
All notes with a reminder	reminderorder:*
All notes with a reminder for today	remindertime:day
All notes with a reminder in the next 7 days	remindertime:day+7

In the image below you can see all reminders that are due today.

I save searches that I use often in the shortcuts bar.

Saved searches for quick access.

No matter what you put into Evernote you should be able to find it using tags and Evernote's search Syntax. Evernote is a powerful tool to help keep you organized and on top of things.

Do you use Evernote's powerful searching??

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