How do I get exact search results from the Notes search bar?

Unfortunately not. I don't know what the word was that prompted me to write this (I forgot to credit the original poster)

But just now I tried ujs and it finds 'ujs', "UJS" 'Justice', 'just' and 'ups'; and something in an attachment. A couple of the found items.

When I tired "ujs" (with quotes), the correct Notes are found but no highlighting which happens with no quotes. Maybe because the highlighting of the words is missing I assumed nothing was found.

So you have to search again on the individual note.

Thank you. I wasn't paying quite good enough attention because of the inconsistency.

PS Both quotes aren't needed, only the first.

Replying to self. I just did another search for 'gem'. I think if the word is in a "dictionary" then it just searches for the word, but if the word is not in the dictionary, then it looks for any combination of those letters. So if the search word is not in the dictionary use a " before the search word. I use dictionary loosely because I don't know what Apple is using. PS. The behavior is the same in iOS.

Apple assumes no developers or people using odd acronyms, etc would bother with a mundane app like Notes. sarcasm.