Greetings Logos team. Thanks again for your hard work!
I've mentioned this before, but just want to throw it out again in hopes that it can be fixed in a future update.
I've been using Logos since version 4 and so - long before note tags existed I had created my own tagging system that I've developed over 10 years (modern Logos tags, in version 8, are almost developed enough for me to switch over, but they're still not editable from mobile and it's going to take me many years to convert everything so I still use my old tags). In version 7, and earlier, I could search my notes as shown in the example below, and filter to exactly what I wanted - but in version 8 the problem is that the search no longer respects quotation marks. If I enter a query with quotation marks I'm expecting it to be like - "FIND EXACT PHRASE", but instead it treats it like - "FIND ANY OF THESE WORDS". This means it doesn't filter down to the notes I'm looking for and I still have to wade through a long list...
I REQUEST THAT THE SEARCH BAR, WHICH IS AT THE TOP OF THE NOTES PANEL, BE FIXED TO BE A RESPECTER OF QUOTATION MARKS.
(In the attached example you'll see the search at the top in quotation marks compared to the "in-note-search" (which IS an exact phrase search by default), and you'll see that even though the note is part of the query results, it does NOT contain the phrase searched for).
Thanks
- Hi, Jonathan, thanks for the suggestion. We do plan to make the "search notes" bar more sophisticated over time, but it's not on the immediate roadmap. In the meantime, You can use the Basic Search panel set to "Your Documents" for phrase searching in note content. Search>Your Documents also supports results for tags, anchored references, and notebook titles. I hope that helps.
Jonathan Vliet — Edited
Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately that doesn't really help much with what I want to do because - if I could - I would filter down the list by searching an "old tag" and then add a "new tag", and "select all" and "apply all" and thereby tag 30 notes at a time. This would help turn a years long project into a months long project. If there's any chance to encourage this update any sooner, that would be very much appreciated! :) But I understand that you have a lot going on. So, whenever it can be added to the search, I will be very grateful. Thank you