Part 1 of 2: Effective searching in EverNote

Searching is key in any media/circumstance. In the old days who ever could do a good search at Altavista, Yahoo or eventually Google was the king. I even had searching classes back in university for faculty and other students.
Since than has the search engines evolved to let any type of search produce decent results. However, still there are lots of times to save by learning how to search effectively.

If you are an EverNote user, improve your search results and save time.

First of all here are some shortcut keys for searching,

If you want to have more shortcuts here are two links to the EverNote webpage.
Windows = http://ow.ly/4JBC6
MAC = http://ow.ly/4JBGF

Beginners syntax guide

Simple syntax that you should know and if you don’t here it comes:

• One or many words will search for at least one of them
  Example: ipad tutorial price

This will return all pages with all of the words above.

• Quotation marks will search for the exact words in sequence
  Example: “ipad tutorial”
  This will return all pages with both words in the exact order.
• Adding + and – signs.
  Example: +ipad -tutorial
  This will return all pages with the word ipad and not the word tutorial in them. The + sign can be omitted.
• You can of course combine all of the above to get better results.

Now, the best way to get really good at this is to repeat it and use it everyday.

Let Google help

You can let google search your evenote notes when you do searches at Google. Install the plugin for Firefox or Chrome and in the plug-in settings you can let google search your notes as well. Not as useful that you might think but at times, it comes handy.

There is another more advanced blog coming in couple of days, look out for it. If you leave a quick comment below I will make sure that you get an e-mail once I have finished the spell check and the final proof read.

Best of luck,