Evernote is making it easy to find notes, letters, recipes and other information with its "descriptive search" on its Mac app.
Evernote, the popular note-taking platform, rolled out a latest update to include a smart search feature called "descriptive search" for Mac users. The new addition helps users find anything within the app by using common terms. In a blog post by Andrew Sinkov, company's marketing vice president, the descriptive search is defined as a layer of intelligence on Evernote's search function that "works by allowing you to describe what you're looking for using common terms, which makes creating a complex search incredibly straightforward."
How does it work?
A user can type a phrase in the search bar and Evernote will display a list of suggestions. The new search functions suggests the results based on the actual contents of the Evernote account, which include notebooks, content of your notes, tags and devices. For example, when a user types "photos from Paris" into the search bar, all images tagged under Paris will be displayed. Similarly, if a user searches for "Powerpoint from last month," all Powerpoint presentations added into Evernote since last month will be shown in the results. This helps user to find what he or she is looking for with the use of simple terms.
Evernote also added a number of new search filters that help simplify searches even further. These filters include categorization by dates, apps, places, documents, images, audio, devices, web sources, type of content, notebooks and tags. The knowledge base article by Evernote explains how these filters work with examples here.
The descriptive search function is available for Mac's English app and the advance search will make its way to other languages and platforms and devices like iPad "soon". Windows users have long enjoyed the descriptive search function as it debuted in 2010.
Tuesday's announcement also includes support for business card scanning with ScanSnap Evernote Edition scanner, which gets automatically saved to the Mac address book.
