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looking for app that, like my old Palm Pilot, does a FIND that searches all content on iPhone, generating a clickable hit list with summaries a la Google. Especially searching for things like phone numbers or email addresses in email message content, or in Notes, etc.
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is there find feature on iphone to locate my contacts without going thru of so many. thanks.
Use Google app for iPhone. That should do it.
nope, does not work.
It only support search of Contacts ... and by name only ... 
To me this is not a search, it is a direct access and does not bring any more value to the existing iPhone search which gives exactly the same poor service
I am looking for a way to search on my iPhone (thousand of notes, ability to find a contact by words in the note attached to a contact, by their email id, city, etc.
Even with Google Apps for iphone the 'search' is not helpfull. It is not a search, it it a direct access (you search the contact through their name only .
iphone search is not better.
I have not been able to find any program that could search the content of the iPhone.
I had previously a Palm phone, and the FIND function was working across all content and all files stored on it. (not just the header type of information (i.e. just the title of a document, or the name of a contact)
that is accessed by scrolling to the right from the first home page.
Seems to search, and find, just about everything that I have asked it to.
Finds words inside notes, finds words associated with apps.
Take a look, it's on all iPhones.
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The iOS search cannot find things on my iPod touch. For example, if I search for a category in photos. Or for words in the original files names of the photos dropped into iTunes. Or for a document names in Goodreader or Notebooks. My 1995 Palm pilot could search for data on all programs on the device.
I've just recently switched from a Palm Treo to an iPhone. I love most everything about the iPhone but am disappointed in it's search capabilities. When searching Contacts, the only fields that are searched are first and last name. On the Palm you could search all fields in Contacts and in Memos the search function searched the entire content of all Memos.
I had over 1400 contacts and a large number of memos on the Palm Treo. I exported/imported the Palm Memos to the iPhone in vCard format. This worked well, but I could still only search by Name field.
What I did to solve the problem of expanding search was load the vCard export from the Palm Treo into Stanza, an ebook read for the iPhone/Touch. Then I imported the resulting 'ebook' into the iPhone. Now I can search the 'ebook' version of my contact data completely (all fields) and very quickly.
I did the same with all my Palm memos. Exported them as a single file from Palm Desktop, imported them into Stanza (which turns the file into an ebook), transferred the 'ebook' to the iPhone, and then the memos are easily searched. The search hits are nicely highlighted by Stanza.
One could export the iPhone Contacts via iTunes in vCard format, import the file into Stanza and then, from within Stanza on the iPhone/Touch have the entire content of the iPhone Contacts data become nicely searchable. Stanza searches quickly and give you a list of all the hits from your search target.
You'd need to check out the Stanza website regarding the method for getting text files into stanza on your computer and then getting them into your iPhone/Touch. It's not too difficult. I'll explain it if anyone is interested.
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