Search widget issues

Hi,
I’ve waited to report this because it isn’t mission critical (and I can circumvent the issues by using Shortcuts). But on both macOS and iPadOS (latest versions), the Search widget is pretty erratic.

  1. It doesn’t recognize creation date strings (i.e @ctoday etc). A search for @lastXdays works fine, but @clastXdays returns zero results.
  2. Combining search terms doesn’t work at all. For example: @today #journal/2024 won’t display today’s journal entry.
  3. Searching for the tag #journal/2024 returns entries, but sorted by creation date. So…January. The Sidebar widget, however, returns the latest notes (as seen in the screenshot).

All search strings function properly in both Bear, and through Shortcuts (app, widgets, etc).

Anyone else experiencing this?



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I messed up when preparing this post: @createdXdays is the correct syntax (it’s what I was using). Still doesn’t work however.

Search widgets in Bear are giving me similar buggy results. In some cases, the widget will show no results, but when you click on it to go into Bear, the proper search results are presented. When there is a result in the widget, the notes it shows seem almost arbitrary in terms of order.

There have been some bug fixes on this issue recently. Are you experiencing this on the latest version: 2.1.9 of Bear?

Yup: 2.1.9

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