Search

Search lets you quickly find documents and text across your entire collection. It searches both document titles and the text content within your documents, so you can find what you’re looking for even if you only remember a phrase from somewhere in the middle of a page. It’s also typo-friendly, and finds things that might have been mistyped or misspelled.

You can open search with Mod+K or by clicking the Search button in the left sidebar.

By default, search is scoped to your active workspace. If you’d like to search across all workspaces at once, you can change this in settings.

Using Search

When you open search, a dialog appears with a text field. Start typing and results will appear as you go. Search matches against both document titles and text content, so a query like “goblin” will surface any document with “goblin” in its title as well as any document that mentions “goblin” in its body text. Any mildly mistyped result, such as gooblin will also appear.

Each result shows the document title along with highlighted snippets of matching text so you can tell at a glance which result you’re looking for. If a document has more matches than can be shown, you’ll see a note like “3 more results found in this document”.

Results also display small colored workspace badges next to the title, showing which workspaces contain each document. If the document tree is enabled, a breadcrumb path appears below the title showing where the document sits in the tree hierarchy, making it easy to distinguish between similarly named documents in different locations.

Use the Arrow Up and Arrow Down keys to move through the results, and press Enter to open the selected one. You can also click any result directly.

Creating Documents from Search

If your search doesn’t match anything, the dialog will show a “No results” message along with an option to create a new document using your search text as the title. This is a quick way to start writing something new, and is often more convenient than going through the “new document” flow.

Even when results do exist, a create option is always available at the very bottom of the list.

Expanded Search

The search dialog is great for quick lookups, but if you want to keep your results visible while you work, click the expand button in the top-right corner of the dialog. This opens search as a full pane that stays open like any other document. Your search term carries over automatically.

Expanded search works the same way as the dialog, but shows more results and can be split alongside your other panes.

Context Menu

In expanded search, right-clicking a result opens a context menu with additional options:

• Split right to open the document in a new pane to the right
• Split down to open the document in a new pane below
• New tab to open the document in a new tab
• New Document as Tree Child to create a nested document within the result
• Delete Document to delete the result

Keyboard Shortcuts

For a complete list of all keyboard shortcuts, see Keyboard Shortcuts.