Search Syntax Documentation

JimDean829 · 2021-07-14T15:02:21.069Z

Having a search function like Anki would be really cool.

In Anki: The Shift-Key is the AND-operator. If you click on a tag and on a notebook (=card-deck in anki) it searches for the tag AND the card-deck. If you hold Ctrl.-Key it behaves as a OR-operator. If you hold the Alt-Key and click on a tag, the search is negated.

So clicking on tag:animal and after it on deck:zoology with Ctrl.+Alt and after it on deck:cars will create the search string, which is displayed as:
"tag:animal" AND -"deck:zoology" OR "deck:cars"

So you don't need to memorize the name of the search-commands and you can seach more quicker by just pressing keys and click on notebooks/tags.

akadaedalus · 2021-07-16T16:44:38.764Z

Regarding the search for unchecked boxes, would it make sense to have notes searchable by the iscompleted flag like todo? That is, if there are any unchecked boxes, iscompleted:0 would find those notes.

I also have used the simple search workaround but would like to limit it to certain notebooks (and subnotebooks).

cvina · 2021-07-26T17:45:11.112Z

Is there any possibility to search for completed To-do notes based on the completion date?

It would be nice to have an operator that works similar to created: and updated:, for example comleted:day-0, completed:YYYYMMDD, etc

JackGruber · 2021-07-26T18:05:34.970Z

No you can only search for the due date, not for the completed date.

naviji · 2021-08-20T07:22:33.935Z

Thanks for testing this. I'll look into it.

steffenms · 2021-09-07T19:35:37.848Z

Any news on?:

naviji:

Making the search logic work with "basic search" shouldn't be that difficult. I'll look into it.

I would still be happy with at least something that lets me search open todos e.g. within a notebook

steffenms:

For example: checkbox:0 for incomplete checkboxes and checkbox:1 for completed checkboxes.

Thanks again naviji for your effort.

jb33k · 2021-10-11T05:00:31.045Z

Is there a way to limit the search to specific subnotebooks?

I've a structure like Projects/Foo and Projects/Bar and I would like to do a search that shows only Projects/Bar but I can't figure out the syntax to do that.

JackGruber · 2021-10-11T10:32:13.240Z

@jb33k
Not for the complet notebook path, you can only specify one notebook name notebook:Bar

Loopin187 · 2021-11-02T08:27:20.692Z

Is there a proper way to do a partial search when looking a text that does not start at the front of the word or string of text?

Example, search for "top" in the word "Desktop".

I have only just discovered that placing "/" in front of "top" works to find "Desktop" but is there another way?

th-ros · 2022-01-25T20:14:54.104Z

I tried searching for one of the words word1 or word2 or word3 in the title but not for notes in my notebook "archived":

any:1 title:word1 title:word2 title:word3 -notebook:archived

But my search query will find nothing.
Is there a bug with any:1 in combination with -notebook:...?
Or how can I search correctly?

Greetings Thomas

drdiggit · 2022-07-30T13:18:12.320Z

Have you found a solution to this? I need to achieve the same

For example
search for "test" and it will find "betatest" or "test_result" in any context.
Would also be nice if the search items would jump to and highlight the respective result.

Also tried using test* and *test and test

EDIT: Solved it by using /test which falls back to basic search

Ikua · 2022-10-06T15:43:10.242Z

Hello!
For me also works the solution of drdiggit. But i am a german speaker and so the problem is, that we stick words often together so front door key would become frontdoorkey. So with normal search you could not find door neither key. On the computer it also wouldnt be a great problem, but if you are searching on the mobile, it is a pain in the a... So I would really happy about a permanent switch for the user especially in the mobile version.

Greets and thanks for the great work

majorgear · 2023-02-07T00:52:55.834Z

Is there a way to search by the length of the note body or by the markup type ( HTML or markdown )? Those would come in handy.

Update: As a work around, I used the Joplin API to retrieve notes and then examine the markup type and body size( length ) for my purposes. It's doable but not something you can do ad-hoc as it took me hours to develop a working script.

fam04s · 2023-06-14T07:59:32.495Z

I was looking for a way to search for todo type of notes. A brief Google search brought me to this project.
Was this project abandoned? I tried and type:todo filter didn't work, which probably means the changes suggested above weren't integrated into Joplin. Those were great proposals, it would be a pity to see them abandoned.

zblesk · 2023-06-14T08:35:40.136Z

type:todo works for me.

fam04s · 2023-06-14T08:56:10.573Z

That's weird, for me type:todo returns everything: regular notes as well as todos. It doesn't filter. I have Joplin 2.10.19 on Windows 10. I'll try to disable extensions, maybe it helps...
Disabling extensions didn't help.

fam04s · 2023-06-14T09:15:54.352Z

Does it really work?

fam04s · 2023-06-14T09:27:38.177Z

It looks like the type keyword is broken. For example If I search for the word terminal it filters properly and returns filtered list of notes. If I add type:todo it returns everything, even the notes that don't have that word
joplin
terminal in them.

zblesk · 2023-06-14T10:04:01.444Z

Ah, there's the problem then. Seems you're not using search.
That's the goto anything tool.
Search syntax is used for the actual search - click the Search textbox, or press F6.

fam04s · 2023-06-14T10:44:07.014Z

Seems like I mixed up the terms
Thanks for the help