Post by Igor CdM on Mar 6, 2021 22:28:39 GMT
Is there a way to create OneNote keywords that:
(1) could just be typed, without using the OneNote tags; and
(2) could be synced with Microsoft To Do?
I want to find ways to create a convenient link between MS To-Do and OneNote. Evernote tagging could help me a lot since MS To-do uses a system pretty much like it.
Note that using links is very precarious. The link seems to crash whenever the OneNote page is moved. OneNote's page links are file paths within the note and seem to break as soon as you change the folder.
Tags would be a solution if the MS To Do could understand it, but it also seems impossible.
So I tried to create manually written keywords: like Evernote hashtags.
Some observations about OneNote search:
(1) Cannot search for exact phrase:
As is usual in search engines, a search for foo bar returns any page that has both foo and bar in it.
Search: foo bar
In many search engines, a search for "foo bar" returns only results that contain foo bar exactly. This is not the case in OneNote: It studiously ignores the quotation marks, and thus you can't e.g. distinguish between:
This means simply putting the title in the notes can work if the title is unique enough. This is obviously not an ideal solution.
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(2) OneNote's support for standard search operators is poor, if it has any at all:
A search for foo or bar tries to find a page that includes all of those words, instead of pages that contain either foo or bar but don't need to contain both. Instead, the page has to contain all three of foo, bar and or.
What
about special signs? OneNote's search is annoyingly good at studiously
ignoring just about everything that might be used to make a string of
text more unique. For example, searching for the keyword wiki.
These special characters are all completely and utterly ignored by OneNote UWP Search, they cannot be used for tagging:
A search for any of the above will find Wiki. A search for id:Wiki will return:
(1) could just be typed, without using the OneNote tags; and
(2) could be synced with Microsoft To Do?
I want to find ways to create a convenient link between MS To-Do and OneNote. Evernote tagging could help me a lot since MS To-do uses a system pretty much like it.
Note that using links is very precarious. The link seems to crash whenever the OneNote page is moved. OneNote's page links are file paths within the note and seem to break as soon as you change the folder.
Tags would be a solution if the MS To Do could understand it, but it also seems impossible.
So I tried to create manually written keywords: like Evernote hashtags.
The problem is that OneNote search can't find special characters when you input them on its Search box.
(1) Cannot search for exact phrase:
As is usual in search engines, a search for foo bar returns any page that has both foo and bar in it.
Search: foo bar
foo <- not shown
bar <- not shown
foo bar <- shown
foo bar <- shown
foo
bar <--- (with line break) shownIn many search engines, a search for "foo bar" returns only results that contain foo bar exactly. This is not the case in OneNote: It studiously ignores the quotation marks, and thus you can't e.g. distinguish between:
foo bar
foo bar
foo
bar <--- (with line break)This means simply putting the title in the notes can work if the title is unique enough. This is obviously not an ideal solution.
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(2) OneNote's support for standard search operators is poor, if it has any at all:
A search for foo or bar tries to find a page that includes all of those words, instead of pages that contain either foo or bar but don't need to contain both. Instead, the page has to contain all three of foo, bar and or.
What
about special signs? OneNote's search is annoyingly good at studiously
ignoring just about everything that might be used to make a string of
text more unique. For example, searching for the keyword wiki.
These special characters are all completely and utterly ignored by OneNote UWP Search, they cannot be used for tagging:
#Wiki
@Wiki
!Wiki
:Wiki
;Wiki
>Wiki
&Wiki
+Wiki
=WikiA search for any of the above will find Wiki. A search for id:Wiki will return:
id:Wiki
id Wiki
id: Wiki
id :Wiki
id Wiki
id
Wiki <--- (with line break)I abandoned Evernote, but I still can't figure out how I can make OneNote good enough when I am dealing with more than one thousand note...