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Jon - I saw the value in semantic search years ago when working for a U.S. government client. Since retiring, I’ve written what has become a rich set of articles on the history of my corner of the Lowcountry of South Carolina. My research has often been captured in Evernote but not my writing or the published articles. Semantic search will encourage me to move the published articles into Evernote so I can explored the gaps in my articles and reveal ideas for new articles. If this new search works well, I predict it will be a huge magnet for increased use of Evernote in new and creative ways.
I have traditionally been a big user of the "intitle" search, so love the idea that I no longer need to worry about using the correct "word" (i.e. receipt vs invoice)... great explanation with each word having a number, and related numbers being closer together. Haven't heard that before, but it really illustrates how I imagine a lot of AI works...
Understand. Indexing for search has always happened and the reason is so that when you search for something it doesn't have to start at note number one and work through all the words of 1000s of notes looking for the word you've searched for. Search becomes pretty much instant when it uses an index.
The re-indexing is just more advanced where its looking at the relationships between words so it can deliver better results.
It all done automatically on the Evernote servers, the same as it always has been, just more advanced.
Good point, thanks. I've never been comfortable having personal or more sensitive information in Evernote, due to no E2EE, so will stick to Notesnook for that type of data and keep Evernote for less sensitive things.
Good plan. I'd like Evernote to have a secure notebook where we can put these notes with the understanding they don't appear in search, AI or any of the other fancy features.
BTW Thanks for the good description of semantic search.
Jon - I saw the value in semantic search years ago when working for a U.S. government client. Since retiring, I’ve written what has become a rich set of articles on the history of my corner of the Lowcountry of South Carolina. My research has often been captured in Evernote but not my writing or the published articles. Semantic search will encourage me to move the published articles into Evernote so I can explored the gaps in my articles and reveal ideas for new articles. If this new search works well, I predict it will be a huge magnet for increased use of Evernote in new and creative ways.
I think you’re right. Semantic search could be more useful than the AI Assistant. I’m definitely capturing more information into Evernote right now.
I have traditionally been a big user of the "intitle" search, so love the idea that I no longer need to worry about using the correct "word" (i.e. receipt vs invoice)... great explanation with each word having a number, and related numbers being closer together. Haven't heard that before, but it really illustrates how I imagine a lot of AI works...
Glad it helped. A bit less organisation will save a little bit of time. We can just dump more into Evernote.
Regarding the re-indexing and embedding, I'm more concerned with Evernote having access to my notes and the privacy surrounding THAT, never mind AI.
Understand. Indexing for search has always happened and the reason is so that when you search for something it doesn't have to start at note number one and work through all the words of 1000s of notes looking for the word you've searched for. Search becomes pretty much instant when it uses an index.
The re-indexing is just more advanced where its looking at the relationships between words so it can deliver better results.
It all done automatically on the Evernote servers, the same as it always has been, just more advanced.
Good point, thanks. I've never been comfortable having personal or more sensitive information in Evernote, due to no E2EE, so will stick to Notesnook for that type of data and keep Evernote for less sensitive things.
Good plan. I'd like Evernote to have a secure notebook where we can put these notes with the understanding they don't appear in search, AI or any of the other fancy features.
I'm a keen hiker also but all my notes related to this do have hiking via a Hiking tag.
Looking forward to semantic search - if it works like it says on the tin, it will be very helpful