#Please allow exact search, and also fix relevance🙏

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timid kayak
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I am looking for a specific word, unfortunately this word is short and is showing me a lot of partial matches that are junk results. (bear in mind i have thousands of notes).
Also, the junk results even show higher in relevance than the full word that i am actually looking for.

So i see 2 problems here:
1- Relevance is not sorting the word i am looking for first, as it should.
2- I cannot look for the word exactly as i need it, even if i put it in quotes. Shouldn't using quotes fix this issue somehow? or any other modifier in the search to force an exact match?

Example: I need "Pro". Just pro, nothing more. But i get a lot of junk results "professional" "prohpet" "protests", etc etc etc.

bold river
timid kayak
# bold river For anyone else facing this issue: A simple workaround for finding exact words...

I just noticed a small problem in this logic. If the word is at the end of a sentence, adding the space between quotes won't work because there is a dot after. I just found something I was looking for at the end of a sentence. But since it ends with a dot "(space) keyword(space)" doesn't work. I removed the last space and found it. Just something to keep in mind to maybe include special characters if you Will add the space automatically. For example a sentence can end in question mark or exclamation mark

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Also, if the keyword is at the beggining of the line, there is no space before, so this trick also doesn't work. Just something to keep in mind if you will do this process automatically. I am discovering this by trial and error searching my own notes