Bear Search widgets not listing any notes with @... searches

Beta Beta Bug Reports
1

Testing version:
Bear 2.1.4.(12484)
on iPad Pro 12" (2nd gen) running iPadOS 17.3.1 (21D61)

What were you doing:
Adding Bear Search widgets

What feature did you use:
Tried all 3 search widgets with either @pinned, @last2days, or @yesterday.

What happened:
No notes listed, but search opens in Bear when tapping empty widget.

What did you expect to happen:
Listing notes in widget according to @… searches. (Works with regular plain keywords)

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2

Thanks for reporting this but the search widget seems to work fine here. Does the search widget for regular searches work as expected?

3

Hi Danilo, thanks for swift response :slight_smile:

  • Regular search keywords lists really old notes but not from from last several days.
  • Got @last10days to list some notes, but @last5days doesn’t list anything.
  • Same issue on both iPhone and iPad.
  • The listing in widget (when I manage to get it to list something) and same search inside Bear, lists very different results and order.
  • @pinned doesn’t list anything even though one of the pinned notes is from november.
4
  1. Did a clean reinstall on iPhone
  2. Waited to all notes had synced rell
  3. Re-added the largest search widget
  4. Tried @last350days: nothing listed
  5. @last360days: a few notes from March last year were listed.
  6. Edited one of those, and now that one only get listed with: @last350days and also appear as the only one with @last1days :thinking:
  7. Edited a recent note, but that didn’t appear in the list …

Does the Widget rely on Spotlight search?

5

No but, How many notes do you have on your library?

6

1,175 notes only, starting from October 2010.

Using Widgget with empty search:

  • I expect list of last modified notes, but now on iPhone the top one is from March 5th last year
  • On iPad i get a different result with empty search: notes from last month, but not the latest ones.
  • Also noticed that when added search widget, it searches for “Bear” by default, even though the search field is empty :thinking:
7

In IOS Preferences > Privacy&Security > Analytics & Improvements > Analytics Data can you see some “Bear” or “Bear Widgets” crashes?

8

I see a bunch of these:

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and on iPad;
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But it doesn’t look like any of these are recent. BTW I’m not running the beta, but latest AppStore release. Would it be helpful if I tried with latest beta from TestFlight instead?

9

@trix180
Did a clean install of Bear with restart in between on my iPad as well, and now get the exact same result as on iPhone.

  • Blank search shows only notes older than 357 days,
  • @last350days lists nothing
  • If I add or edit newer notes, they still do not show up in widget list.
  • If I edit notes older than 357 days, they do show up with @last1days in search field.
10

Solved

  • Did a full backup and restore of Bear on Mac
  • Waited for Mac to complete sync up to iCloud
  • Waited for iPhone and iPad to sync down from iCloud
  • Search Widget now works as expected :+1::sunglasses: