Search in notebook names

SouthPoleCat · 2020-03-28T16:25:20.540Z

I must be missing something simple, but search does not return results from notebook titles, only notes inside notebooks. Is it a bug?

in general, it would be nice to have “smart notebook” which will automatically pull in (virtually) notes with a certain keyword or condition. (Like smart collections in photo managers).

dpoulton · 2020-03-28T17:51:38.532Z

Greetings @SouthPoleCat

SouthPoleCat:

I must be missing something simple, but search does not return results from notebook titles, only notes inside notebooks.

As you have seen the "standard search" searches note titles and note text. To search note titles, tag names or notebook names you can use the "Goto Anything" search.

Tools > Goto Anything... (or CRTL+G)

This search will also highlight partial matches as can be seen in the screenshot below.

CTRL-G

There’s also a modification to the “Goto Anything...” search being developed which, if / when merged, will additionally cause it to search the body text of all the notes as well.

github.com/laurent22/joplin

Desktop: Go To Anything by body

laurent22:master ← anjulalk:gotoanything-body

opened 09:52AM - 08 Mar 20 UTC

anjulalk

+150 -11

Closes #2683 Using `/` prefix followed by a search query now shows list of n…otes which matches the query in their bodies. I had to add a new state variable `highlightKeywords` to prevent body search keywords getting highlighted in the titles. ![1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26695184/76160453-6bad0300-6150-11ea-8d7b-d62020d66ba0.gif) I've also edited the help text. Hope that's not an issue for translation?

SouthPoleCat:

in general, it would be nice to have “smart notebook” which will automatically pull in (virtually) notes with a certain keyword or condition. (Like smart collections in photo managers).

I am not a dev so I do not know if this is possible however it sounds like an interesting auto-tagging concept...

emilioluque · 2021-11-21T20:29:42.571Z

I find a "go to anything" that does not show notebook titles containing that string counterintuitive. I would love not to have to remember whether what I am searching for is a note or a notebook. Is there at least an option to search for anything, whether notebook title, note title or note content?