
nb:notebook Only search notes assigned to notebook. The former means “any note where is exactly ”, whereas the latter means “any note where starts with “. Note that in these cases, the wildcards works - i.e., option:value is different from option:value*. They normally take the form option:value. word matches notes that do not contain words starting with "word" You can also use quotation marks to remove the implied wildcard - `word` will also match wordpress and wording, but `"word"` (with the double quotes) will not. "word" Quotation marks limit the search to an exact match, so this will only match "this is a strange word" in the previous example. `strange word` will match notes containing "this word is strange", "this is a strange word", and "Strange! my word" Strange word By default searches only returns notes that match all words, regardless of the order. But in the Evernote app at least, the wildcard seems to be implied so this is redundant. Word* Wildcards are allowed only at the end, and in theory `potato*` should match both 'potatoes' and 'potato' whereas `potato` should only match the singular. This is unfortunate, because sometimes you only want the exact match, but luckily you can use quotation marks in that case. Note that this is not what it says in the Evernote API documentation, where it states "Words in the content of the note are split by whitespace or punctuation".


In other words, think of it as the equivalent to word*. word Searching for word will match any occurrences of word, obviously, but also those starting with word (e.g. It is an ‘all’ search by default, and the order of the search operators matters.
