You really ca’t get the best out of EagleFiler unless you know how to use the live search box. This post documents 5 different ways to do a search using the live search box. This article is not about smart folders. We’re saving that topic for later. The five ways after the break.
The first way to use the search box is to determine just what you want to search. You can select everything from anywhere to the to/cc fields, as shown in the above screen shot. If you use the anywhere setting above, EagleFiler will search anywhere in the document for the keyword you type in the live search box. If you select filename, then it will limit it’s search to the filename and nowhere else.
You can limit what EagleFiler will search if you select a folder from the library pane. If you know where your files are, or might be, you can give EagleFiler a head start on its search by selecting a folder from the library pane.
You can use AND, &, or a space to do and conditional searches. AND Conditional searches means that all keywords must be in the file for it to meet the answer criteria. An Example is Kite & String & Key. Only those documents with those words somewhere in a document for an Anywhere search will be shown to you.
You an also search for tags in the live search without having to turn on the search limitations. Simply preface the tag with tag:. Want to search for something with the tag of Blog? Then write tag:Blog in the live search box. You can set the search box to search only tags, but by using the tag: you can use the anywhere to search for a specific tag and another condition.
The default behavior for keyword search is to allow partial word matches. Fire finds fires and the like. However I sometimes turn that off when I am finding specific words and I don’t want it to match partial variations of the words. To turn on partial word matching without turning it on you can use the wildcard character. *ant* finds any word with ant somewhere in it. * is the wild card character used when partial word matching is turned off.
There is a lot more to searching, but with these tools you are well on your way to getting the most out of EagleFiler.
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