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Find a record despite letter case
Searching blue finds BLUE notebook because both sides are lowercased first; the app also accepts the query words in any order, the web tool does not.
Lowercasing on both sides
Before a query is compared with a record, Shotnest lowercases both and applies its accent table. BLUE, Blue and blue therefore become the same four letters, and a query typed in capitals behaves exactly like one typed in lower case. The record itself is shown as entered, so the capitals in BLUE notebook stay visible in the result.
The two search surfaces differ after that point. The web tool looks for the whole normalized query as one continuous piece of text. The Shotnest app splits the query on spaces and keeps a screenshot when every word appears somewhere in its text, in any order. That is why notebook blue returns nothing on this page but finds the same record in the app.
Try the original example
- Supplied records
- BLUE notebook — Green folder
- Query
- blue
- Matching record numbers
- 1
Check a case-insensitive hit
- Enter the word you remember in any case.
- Note which record numbers come back; here only 1 matches, because Green folder has no blue.
- Look at the original capitals in the returned text before copying a product code or a name.
- In the app, add a second word to narrow the result instead of retyping the full phrase in order.
- Query NOTEBOOK
- record 1
- Query notebook blue, web tool
- no match
- Query notebook blue, Shotnest app
- record 1
Common misreadings
- Treating a hit as proof that two passages are identical. BLUE notebook and blue notebook match the same query but are different strings.
- Expecting case to matter for codes. A search for ab12 also finds AB12 and Ab12, so check the exact characters when the code is case sensitive.
- Assuming the web tool understands word order freedom the way the app does.
- Searching a word that was split across two lines: the app also tries the lines joined without a break, so confir- followed by mation is still found as confirmation, while the web tool has no such second form.
What a match leaves open
Case folding only widens what counts as the same letters. It does not decide which of two matching screenshots is the one you wanted; open the result and, in the app, look at the line highlighted on the image.