If you’re like me you’re always searching for something in your archives, and for me one of the biggest is Evernote which does have a really good search tool but sometimes you just want to shortcut it.

For those that prefer the browser interface, the folks at Evernote did a quick video and blog post about adding the ability to search Evernote to Google Chrome.

But wait a minute you said I could search Evernote with Launchy and you can by adding the same search parameters to Launchy.

Open Launchy, right click and select Options
Click on Plug-ins
Click Weby
Click the ‘+’ button
Under name enter Evernote
For the URL enter – http://www.evernote.com/search?q=%1
Click ‘Ok’

Now you can bring up Launchy, type Evernote, hit the tab key and whatever you would like to search for.

An important note – if you have multiple words in your search term be sure to place the entire string in quotes or the search will one look for the first term.

I should also note that in both cases your results are pulled and shown in the web client – if you’re logged out you’ll be prompted to log in to see the results.

Another busy week and another round of reading items to share.  There are a number of Google related items in the list as the Chrome OS was made available for download for those that want to test it out (I’ve been booting from a USB drive to test it).

Enjoy the reading.

What are you reading? Post a link in the comments.

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago about how you could update Twitter using Launchy well this week I want to pass along how you can incorporate the date that a particular web page was published. This hack takes advantage of the tip published on 4 May 2009 over at digital inspiration – Find the Date When a Web Page was First Published on the Internet.

The secret lies in adding the sequence &as_qdr=y15 to the end of your search – the folks over at Lifehacker pointed this out already in their post Display the Date a Web Page Was Published in Search Results but since we’re going to use Launchy we need to change search tool.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Bring up Launchy
2. Right click and select Options.
3. Click on Plugins
4. Select Weby
5. Find your Google search
6. Double click on the Query field
7. Add &as_qdr=y15 to the end of the line so it looks like:



8. Click Ok

That’s it, the next time you evoke a Google search from Launchy the publish dates will be included.