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Advanced Search Syntax Cheat Sheet

Pins supports SQLite Full-Text Search syntax to filter your bookmarks. This is only enabled when you use the Query scope to search. Other scopes (Any, Title, Desc., URL, Tag) assumes you want to look for bookmarks with any of the entered terms.

  1. Enclose more than one words in double quotes (") to look for the whole phrase:
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     "via:instapaper"
    
  2. Use asterisk (*) following a search term to mark it as a prefix token:
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     tags:"via*"
    
  3. Use operators like AND, OR, NOT (case sensitive) to specify conditions:
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     youtube AND comedy
     ios OR iphone OR ipad OR macos
     ios NOT iphone
    
  4. Group conditions with parentheses:
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     (twitter OR youtube) AND comedy
    
  5. Add title:, description, url:, tags: to specify the scope for each search term. Scope is assumed to be any otherwise.
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     tags:ios AND title:developer
     apple NOT url:"apple.com"
    
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