# Request: "@empty" as search operator to find empty notes

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/request-empty-as-search-operator-to-find-empty-notes/13988>\
**Category:** Feature Request\
**Tags:** shortcuts, search\
**Created:** [October 18, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/request-empty-as-search-operator-to-find-empty-notes/13988 "2024-10-18T17:06:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![roar](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/roar/32/223_2.png) [@roar](https://community.bear.app/u/roar)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/request-empty-as-search-operator-to-find-empty-notes/13988/21 "2024-11-21T19:17:05Z")

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Please feel free to share it.  
Thank you 😊 🌹

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**Author:** ![James.bcn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/james.bcn/32/5684_2.png) [@James.bcn](https://community.bear.app/u/James.bcn)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/request-empty-as-search-operator-to-find-empty-notes/13988/22 "2024-11-22T11:26:42Z")

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This isn’t really Bear app’s fault, but FYI I just spent a few hours fixing an issue related to this - I am exporting all notes with a certain tag to markdown, and then automatically generating a website using Quarto. An empty note was causing Quarto to throw an unhelpful error. I posted a ticket to the Quarto Github whilst I was trying to sort it out:

> **[How to solve a rendering error · quarto-dev/quarto-cli · Discussion #11499](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/11499)**
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> Description All of the pages on my website render apart from the main index.qmd file, which has a couple of listings on it. It gives the error as shown below. The problem is that I haven't made any...

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**Author:** ![Atharva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@Atharva](https://community.bear.app/u/Atharva)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/request-empty-as-search-operator-to-find-empty-notes/13988/23 "2024-11-22T18:40:06Z")

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Can you share the scripts or any helpful materials for bear to quarto workflow?

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**Author:** ![James.bcn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/james.bcn/32/5684_2.png) [@James.bcn](https://community.bear.app/u/James.bcn)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/request-empty-as-search-operator-to-find-empty-notes/13988/24 "2024-11-23T11:54:17Z")

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I am actually putting together a big overview of it. I’ve been spending a lot of time on it over the last few weeks.

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**Author:** ![art](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@art](https://community.bear.app/u/art)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/request-empty-as-search-operator-to-find-empty-notes/13988/25 "2025-03-27T04:58:57Z")

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Well, for me I’d keep the “empty notes” with title only. I actually have a use case for it.

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