Almost everyday I try to find new ways to improve my organizational skills, and this has never been apparent as it is now with the use of tools like Evernote and Google Apps. This morning I wanted to look up notes in Evernote that I created yesterday, and instead of looking through the list of all of my notes by date, I wanted a way to view just the notes created yesterday. So like any normal person I looked through the help files of Evernote (Which are very thorough by the way) and I came across the search section. Below you will find methods on how to find a note by a particular date with some common uses:

Note: An easy way to remember how to use this search feature, remember year, month then day… Which is the exact opposite way that Americans remember dates.

created:[datetime] ‐ will match any note that has a ‘created’ timestamp that is equal to, or more recent than, the provided datetime.

• created:20070704
  • Matches notes that were created on or after July 4th, 2007, based on the client’s timezone.
• created:20070704T090000
  • Matches notes that were created on or after 9:00am on July 4th, 2007, based on the client’s timezone.
• created:20070704T150000Z
  • Matches notes that were created on or after 3:00pm GMT on July 4th, 2007.
• -created:20070704
  • Matches notes that were created before July 4th, 2007, based on the client’s timezone.
• created:day‐1
  • Matches notes that were created yesterday or today
• ‐created:day
  • Matches notes that were created before today
• created:day‐1 ‐created:day
  • Matches notes that were created yesterday (only)
• created:day‐30
  • Matches notes that were created within the last 30 days (or today)
• created:week
  • Matches notes that were created in this calendar week (Sunday‐Saturday)
• ‐created:month
  • Matches notes that were created before this month
• created:year‐1
  • Matches notes that were created last year or this year
• created:20100101
  • Matches all notes created from this day on

• updated:[datetime] ‐ will match any note that has a ‘updated’ timestamp that is equal to, or more recent than, the provided datetime.

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