Simplenote is back, and it’s better than ever. I was taking a little break from the app while I tried out the latest version of Awesome Note (great, but syncing is far too slow). Version 2.6 has a lot of under-the-hood changes (see the above screenshot), but the one I want to talk about is the change to the search feature. Ahem.

WOOHOO! Instead of executing searches for exact phrases (Cat in the Hat), Simplenote can now find things with substrings (Cat Hat). This makes a big difference with regards to the accuracy of search results, especially with the MacGyver tags I add to all my notes. Simplenote doesn’t yet support actual metatags, so I’ve taken to using dashes and keywords to tag all of my own notes as I create them (more info here). I could only search for a tag or a note content in older versions of Simplenote, but with 2.6, I’m free to filter by tag as well as content, which makes it much easier to search through my archive of review notes.

The only two things left on my Simplenote wishlist are metatags (to sync with Notational Velocity tags) and a new feature that I plan to submit a format request for soon. More on the latter in a post later today.

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