Sharing saved searches

LVB

Hi!

I run The Archive on multiple laptops and would like to make saved searches available everywhere. I've found a plist file buried in the Library that seems to have the saved searches, but I'm unsure whether I can simply copy that without mucking something up. Is there a recommended way?

I also have a meta-question: is there a way to do more advanced searching in these forums, particularly narrowing the search to a category? I feel like this saved search question probably has been asked, but I failed to turn up targeted posts.

Thanks,
Jim

ctietze

You should be able to copy the .plist file over. Make sure that you have write access to the resulting file, though. If that didn't work, just delete it again; the app should start with a new one if none is found on disk.

We're considering to store saved search setting in a configuration file inside the note folder so they sync with the notes.

Will

@LVB said:
Hi!

I run The Archive on multiple laptops and would like to make saved searches available everywhere. I've found a plist file buried in the Library that seems to have the saved searches, but I'm unsure whether I can simply copy that without mucking something up. Is there a recommended way?

I've done this by copying the /Users/will/Library/Application Support/TheArchive/saved_searches.plist to my zettelkasten directory with no problems. Then when I'm on my other Macs, I copy it out locally. I guess I could make a Keyboard Maestro macro to do this, but I salivate waiting for the update to automate this.

I also have a meta-question: is there a way to do more advanced searching in these forums, significantly narrowing the search to a category? I feel like this saved search question probably has been asked, but I failed to turn up targeted posts.

Browser tools to the rescue. I, too, have found the search box on the forums to be a little less than helpful. So I have resorted to using the browser's ability to do its search by site. With this, you can use all the Boolean operators in formulating a search. Very powerful.

I formated a search and typed it in the location field of my browser site:forum.zettelkasten.de "saved search" and the first result of the search answered this question, sort of?