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Feature: Add a search inside notes
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Need search feature inside a note that can be run by calling Ctrl+F .
There is an option to search text globally. But then I will have to find the card.
I use the Standard Notes app, free version, on Arch Linux in AppImage format. The last update removed the option to search for text in notes. Please, was this change caused by some unexpected mechanism in the app or was it intentional and will it be permanent? The search option also no longer appears in the web version. I use Firefox. Thank you for developing this wonderful app.
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The search bar has been moved to the navigations/tags panel in the latest release.
This is to make way for searching more than just notes.
The original issue was that it does not seem possible to find strings within a single note. Global search across multiple file types is great. However, not being able to restrict search to single text file is odd.
Additionally, there does not seem to be a way to advance through the hits of a global search. Instead, one must manually scroll through the notes and visually identify where the string was located.
Finally, when you use global search to discover a string, the results are given in the number of documents that contain at least one instance of that string instead of the number of times the string occurs. This is just confusing (see screen shot for example).
These features have been rejected in the past with the explanation, "We don't want Standard Notes to become a text editor." Fair enough, but do you want it to be a note editor? Then allow users to limit text search to one document and easily jump to each hit within the document.
These features have been rejected in the past with the explanation, "We don't want Standard Notes to become a text editor."
What?! The entire purpose of a notes app is to edit text! It's the sole failure of Standard Notes, and it's a massive one. Sure you can just use it in a browser to piggyback off its Ctrl+F, but it's not nearly as clean or convenient, especially on Android. Without a proper search the actual apps are a complete waste of time to me. If it's not a "text editor", what is it? Productivity? This is the opposite of productive, and now I'm spending more time pleading for a basic standard of every ~~text editor~~ notes app made since the turn of the century. Is it Standard Notes or 'No Standards Notes'?
I guess I'll just have to set up some new browsers exclusively for a Standard Notes homepage with the URL bar removed. I'm fine with workarounds but a lot of people have dropped services for far less, and I can assure you this decision is losing them money because it's the only reason I won't go for Premium. I still love everything else about it/them, but there's really no excuse for this.
If the team is listening, please re-consider this feature. Search inside a note is an essential feature for note-taking app, given most people don't know / wouldn't take the time to report an issue, the number of people requested indicates this is high-demand, you're losing customers because of this.
