Desktop and phone
Finding anything
Full-text search across every note and every imported book, plus the command palette.
On this page
Search covers the full text of every note and every chapter of every book you have imported. It is a real index, so it stays fast with thousands of notes.
Query syntax
| Type this | And you get |
|---|---|
coffee | Notes containing that word. |
coffee shop | Notes containing both words. |
coffee OR tea | Either word. OR must be uppercase. |
coffee AND tea | Both words. AND must be uppercase. |
accid | Prefix matching, so this finds accident and accidental. |
#travel | Notes carrying that tag. |
#travel coffee | Tag and text together. |
Search everywhere, or just here
On both platforms a button at the right of the search box toggles between searching the current SILO and searching your whole library. The desktop tooltip and the phone's placeholder text ("Search this SILO" or "Search all SILOs") tell you which mode you are in.The command palette
Press Ctrl/Cmd+K on the desktop for a palette that jumps to any view, any SILO, or any settings page. It is usually quicker than reaching for the rail.
On the phone
The search box sits at the top of the note list. The header shows how many notes matched, so you can tell straight away whether to narrow the query.