Comments on: Searchify: Calendar search

By: Alain

Alain — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:30:00 +0000

Great program, 3 questions
1) can you add “search in past : ALL” and “search in future : ALL” instead of the limit of 4 years. I know 4 years is a lot, but I have 9 years on it.
2) It’s hard to knwo when the search is over. Is there a way to know when everyhting is found?
3) Will there be an option to search in Contacts?

By: olilan

olilan — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:43:52 +0000

Don’t press return after typing your query – that does a Google search. Just type and wait, and the results will appear.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:23:02 +0000

I have been trying for days and searching your directions to no avail. I have a DROID X and I installed searchify to search my calendar. I pressed the search button on the bottom on the phone next to the return arrow and the search box comes up I have typed everything from what I was looking for to adding the work CAL to adding the word calendar and none of my calendar events come up. I went to my settings and made sure Searchify was on and also to Searchify settings and made sure the Calendar was on. Still nothing comes up from my calendar – it ALWAYS goes to the web for instance I typed “hair” for my hair appointments and it goes to the web under items regarding hair and never to my calendar

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By: Shahar

Shahar — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:36:47 +0000

Hi Olilan,

I have to hand it to you, you’ve succeeded in something no App has before you (as far as I know). I can finally search my Hebrew entries in the calendar.
It does take time, sometimes it seems like it won’t find anything, but it works.
I’ll recommend it in the Android Help Forum.

If you want to answer me directly, please use the email address.

By: olilan

olilan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:33:09 +0000

Also, I should say that there’s no way to make pressing return after typing your query work with Searchify. The quick search box is designed so that pressing return always opens a web page to search Google.

By: olilan

olilan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:26:47 +0000

Hi Ken. Thanks for your comments.

Searchify doesn’t provide any google search functionality so it doesn’t replicate anything from Google. Searchify provides only the features that you can see in Searchify Settings.

The thing is the Quick Search Box on your phone provides Google functions as well as Searchify ones. When you type in a query you’ll see results below and you can tell which ones are from Searchify because they’ll have the Searchify icon. Other ones with just a magnifying glass are Google search suggestions provided by Google.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:23:11 +0000

I have only just found your reply, for which I thank you. Yes, I had discovered by trial and error that the key was not pressing the search button but letting the program do its own thing; pressing the search button always goes straight to Google. However, sometimes that works, and sometimes not, when it insists instead on going to a Google search. Perhaps that is in some way my fault but it is very annoying.

Since browsers by definition have excellent search capabilities, and any browser on a Droid will certainly be capable of searching on Google, I don’t see what virtue there is in replicating that capability in Searchify. Would it not be better, at least as an option, to make Searchify search anything selected EXCEPT via Google. Then to search your calendar items you could use the intuitive but at present incorrect pressing of the search button.

Ken

By: olilan

olilan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:33:40 +0000

Kenneth, this is happening because you’re pressing return after entering your search query – don’t! Just type your query “cal something” and wait… results should appear below the search box.

(If you don’t want to have to type “cal”, you can remove this keyword in Searchify Settings.)

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:17:50 +0000

I am changing from an old TI organizer, with a totally straightforward search capability within its calendar entries (and others, of course), and was disappointed when the Verizon people told me the Droid would not do that. Then I found and installed Searchify, but I still cannot make it work. As a previous writer found, having (I think) adjusted the settings, and checked “calendar search”, when I make any entry in the quick search box, whether starting with “cal” or not, the system searches not in the calendar but the internet via Google. What am I missing?

Ken