Please make it return. For me search is almost useless if I can’t find it within a particular note. It’s like needing to search for a word in a document but you’re only allowed to search on your computer for the document the word is located in. This is a really basic feature and I don’t understand why it’s gone.
We completely changed search in Agenda. Results are now presented in a popover, instead of inline in your notes. This has a bunch of advantages:
It is much, much faster
It doesn’t disturb what you are working on unless you explicitly choose a result
It integrates with Spotlight, and as a result, will also integrate with upcoming AI from Apple
These changes meant search was completely different to how it was implemented before. The old way of moving through a long list of files, with the highlights, was replaced with the new way.
The new system does not work with specific locations in notes. It just says “this note has the word”. So we lost a little functionality in the process, and rather than delay the whole release, we decided to postpone that particular feature (…since most notes in Agenda tend to be quite short anyway).
The good news is that we haven’t forgotten about it, and will be working to add highlighting of words back on the matching note, so you can more easily see where the match occurs.
I have the same question. It’s nice that it shows what document the word appears in but it doesn’t highlight to word. If it’s a long document jumping to the word you’re searching for would be very helpful.
Indeed. Agenda has become pretty much useless to me now as a result of this basic functionality disappearing. “It’s something that will return in a future update” just doesn’t cut it. Scrivener all the way for me now, I’m afraid.
When doing a shortcut in iOS and testing for case when a note is not found, I was surprised that it gave me a note from trash/bin and there seems to be no way to exclude trash/bin from search.
I guess that is probably a bug. We definitely try to avoid the trash when searching in the app. We probably missed it when searching via a shortcut. Thanks for reporting it.
I created a new shortcut to test and only uses Agenda in the phone and it doesn’t seems to have the trash/bin issue. Very strange. Since I was using the desktop and mobile version to trash notes earlier, maybe there was some kind of sync/cache issue.
