Search Should Highlight Searched Text

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• 27 Apr, '23
  Lucian Admin

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  Yes, Amir! An Electron client for Linux should be out some time this summer (exact release date prone to change).

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• 27 Jun, '24
  Bill Admin Pinned

  This is now implemented on all platforms.
  
  We have also added find-in-page to all platforms, which can find terms even when they exist in Rich Footnotes (which will pop open), hidden/completed tasks, etc.

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• 26 Feb, '22
  David

  Search is critical for note taking applications and individual note highlights makes search effective.

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• 11 Apr, '22
  Isaiah

  Yeah search feels broken to me. Makes it really hard to find what I am looking for when it's just a huge list with no highlight to show me which specific result I am looking for. I have to guess which note contains the info, and then scroll through the note to try and find the keyword. Pretty useless IMO

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• 26 May, '22
  Mark Smith

  also pictures should highlight if the text is in OCR

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• 14 Jul, '22
  Adam P.

  I agree with Mark Smith on the Image text OCR highlight. This is a big reason why Evernote remains in my workflow.

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• 03 Aug, '22
  Donna

  I believe the whole point of Amplenote is to bring ideas from different points of thought together so they can be linked, clarified, and something powerful created. The fact that searches for words do not highlight the words, can be addressed with an additional find in the page search, but this stunts creativity.

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• 21 Sep, '22
  weird

  If you mean that after opening a note from search, the matched text should be highlighted, I totally agree
  
  Would also be nice if at least on mobile it jumped to the first occurrence of a match in the note
  
  I guess this is also closely related with the idea of being able to search within a note you're viewing on mobile, and with support for non-fuzzy/exact searches, since with fuzzy search it might be unclear where exactly to jump to/what exactly to highlight

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• 24 Sep, '22
  aus

  This is the one missing feature which makes it impossible for me to start using Amplenote.

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• 02 Apr, '23
  Joseph

  When this feature will get implemented? This has been requested from 2022.

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• 03 Apr, '23
  Lucian Admin

  @Joseph - this will soon be available in the Electron clients we are building for Windows/macOS.

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• 26 Apr, '23
  Amir

  @Lucian:
  Is there an electron client planned for Linux?

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• 10 Aug, '23
  Joseph

  When this feature will be available? This is badly needed

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• 17 Dec, '23
  Rdw

  This is the one and only feature keeping me at Evernote...

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• 14 Feb, '24
  Manuel

  I'm just waiting for this functionality to be able to change

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• 25 Mar, '24
  Jorge

  I am currently in the Pro Plan free trial using the desktop client on Windows and the search term is not highlighted inside notes where the text is found. In addition, highlighting the search term should also work on images where the text has been found via OCR. These two use cases are very important to me and a reason for me to still stay with Evernote.

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• 09 Apr, '24
  Jeremy Brown

  I'm just trying out Amplenote and it's great. I just pressed CMD+F to search within imported notes from Evernote, something I do very often within Evernote, and nothing. There is NO way to search within a note. I hate it, but I'm not sure I can live without this feature. I take meetings notes and screenshots of meeting participants and place in notes. OCR recognizes the name and uses Find within notes to search for names (one of many examples)

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• 12 Apr, '24
  Anthony

  This is very needed in any app used for notetaking. Otherwise you end up having to manually check through notes to see if you've already written down a point or todo task (for those notes not included in any calendar domains). Is there any update on this feature's development progress? Thank you!

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• 10 May, '24
  Zard

  Additionally, searching with # prefix should return only headers and sub-headers. Would be particularly useful in Ctrl+O "jump to note" dialog (unsure of actual name). Perhaps those would be better discussed under entirely new suggestions, though?

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• 27 Jun, '24
  Ryan

  Thanks @Bill but a few comments:
  
  - web search shows only 8 characters before and after the highlighted keyword vs 56 characters on the desktop app. Keep in mind 8 characters is only 0.5 to 1.5 words so not nearly enough to get the context of the sentence. Search still feels pretty frustrating on web for this reason.
  - if there are multiple keywords found in the same note, web shows a combination of the 8 characters before + keyword + 8 characters after, each separated by 2 spaces, which looks like an alien language when strung together like that.
  - When I click on the note, after I searched for a keyword, neither Web nor Desktop takes me to the same highlighted text. Nor is that text highlighted in the note for me to scroll and find easily. It would be nice to save people that step, you know what they're searching for so just give them what they want without having to manually Ctrl + F.

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• 28 Jun, '24
  Joseph

  1. Text is highlighted in right but NOT in right side panel
  2. If huge occurences is found in the same note -> no arrows available to navigate

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