Searching your notes

Limestone can search the full text of your notes — titles and bodies — from a dedicated search window (ADR-0096). Click the magnifying-glass icon at the top of the Collections pane (just left of the ⋯ menu) to open it.

How it works

• Live results. As you type, a ranked list of best matches updates in real time. Results are ordered by relevance (BM25).
• Preview on hover. Point at any result to read that note's body in the pane on the right — no need to open it first.
• Open on click. Click a result to jump straight to that note (its collection is selected for you).

Advanced filters

• Title only vs All note text — restrict matching to titles, or search everything.
• Collection — limit to one collection, or search across all of them.
• Creator — find notes created by a particular person.
• Date — a from/to range, matched against either the note's created or edited date (your choice).

By default the search covers every note, including ones you haven't filed into a collection yet. Setting the collection filter narrows it.

Local and private

Search is powered by a local index on your own machine that Limestone builds from your note files. It's a disposable cache — nothing about your notes is sent to any server, and the index rebuilds itself from your files if it's ever cleared.

The ⌘K (Ctrl-K) quick-find still works as before for fast title jumps; the search window is the place to go for full-text and filtered search.