As long as the app is open, I hit option-n, the window comes up with the cursor in the search field. It accesses my 'TextDocs' folder at the root of my Dropbox, each note is a separate. (also, I highly recommend nvAlt if your needs are confined to Text/Markdown files.

seems a shame that Evernote can't utilize this as well. it gets all that awesome Find & Replace visual pattern based awesomeness. I'm sure some work would be involved in integrating this into Evernote, but once that part was done, Evernote would even get to enjoy any updates Apple makes to that code.Ī lot of applications on the Mac take advantage of this text engine - nvAlt is one that I use everyday. Plus, using the macOS's text editing engine would allow usage of Styles, which would be incredibly useful in Evernote. So if you wanted to search for a pattern with: And then you can replace what you find easily with these tokens. You can build a search query with wildcards for words or digits or spaces or Paragraph breaks, line breaks, page breaks. Using that patterns submenu, you basically have the power of RegEx search and replace, but in a highly visual manner. Icon in the Find field of the Find and Replace bar) is some seriously powerful–and easy to use Pattern-Based search and replace. Hidden in the little menu that itself is not immediately apparent (click on the search glass This is one of the hidden gems of using macOS! I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that if Evernote were to just use Apple's standard Text Editing engine (the one that TextEdit uses) they could already have an incredibly powerful Find & Replace functionality built in.

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