I cannot search items whith /

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Pâmela

• November 13, 2021 13:50

I use workflowy as a list for books to read and already read. And I use month/year to recongize when the books was read. Now, I cannot search using those marks, like 11/2021 or 10/2020, I have 0 returns, and this is making my life quite hard.

This is a bug? Any tips to solve this? Tx.

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  Stuart

  • November 15, 2021 15:15

  I think if you put quotes around the search terms -- eg, "11/2021" or "10/2020" -- that should solve your search problems.

  I suspect that the smart dates feature in Workflowy is interfering with your searches, but the quotes should protect against that, making Workflowy search for the exact phrase you type.

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  Pâmela

  • November 20, 2021 14:51

  It worked! Tx a lot.

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  pieter van waeyenberge

  • March 23, 2022 13:50

  The quotes apparently also work if your search argument omits the first letter of a word.

  Example:

  My list item contains the word foobar

  If i search for foo, search returns my item, but if i search for ooba, search will return nothing unless i quote the substring as so "ooba".

  (maybe that is intended & documented behaviour :p)

  Cheers,
  Pieter.

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