A single extra space defeats search (and search is generally a pain)
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 11:45 am
I love Cinta Notes. It's my daily workhorse. However, it does not scale well past a certain point.
I now have 12 000 notes in my main tab, and search is beyond painful, unless the note I look for is a few days old.
Let me give you a single example that I experienced recently. I clip articles from the Web all the time. Normally, just pasting the title in the search field should be enough to make the relevant note come up. However, English typography sticks the colon right after the word before. I find this ugly. I add a space before the colon. This completely breaks search.
If the title of the note is :
The quick brown fox : jumps over the lazy dog
And I search for :
The quick brown fox: jumps over the lazy dog
The result of the search will be empty.
This is silly. It seems to me it should at least bring up all the notes which have either the, quick, brown, jumps, over, lazy or dog in them.
This occurs with Search Anywhere selected. Toggling Search Inside Words, Search Across Field Boundaries or Use * and ? Wildcards does not change anything.
There are many such unexpected fails.
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Cinta Notes 3.13, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.
I now have 12 000 notes in my main tab, and search is beyond painful, unless the note I look for is a few days old.
Let me give you a single example that I experienced recently. I clip articles from the Web all the time. Normally, just pasting the title in the search field should be enough to make the relevant note come up. However, English typography sticks the colon right after the word before. I find this ugly. I add a space before the colon. This completely breaks search.
If the title of the note is :
The quick brown fox : jumps over the lazy dog
And I search for :
The quick brown fox: jumps over the lazy dog
The result of the search will be empty.
This is silly. It seems to me it should at least bring up all the notes which have either the, quick, brown, jumps, over, lazy or dog in them.
This occurs with Search Anywhere selected. Toggling Search Inside Words, Search Across Field Boundaries or Use * and ? Wildcards does not change anything.
There are many such unexpected fails.
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Cinta Notes 3.13, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.