Search

Noteside has three distinct search surfaces. They look similar but answer different questions.

Find files & content — ⌘P

The fuzzy finder (⌘P, :find, or <Space> f) is how you jump between notes. Type a few characters of a note's title or path and it ranks matches instantly — backed by Rust nucleo, so it stays sub-millisecond even on very large notebooks. It also surfaces content matches, so it doubles as a quick "where did I write that?".

This is your everyday navigator — reach for it first. Open it with an empty query and it shows your recents: notes you open often and recently rank first (pinned notes stay on top), so your working set is always a ⌘P ↵ away. Typed queries get the same gentle nudge — near-ties break toward the notes you actually use.

Search note contents — ⌘⇧F

Content search (⌘⇧F, :grep, or <Space> g) scans the text of every note and shows matching lines with a live preview pane. It supports three modes:

• Plain — literal substring
• Regex — full regular expressions
• Fuzzy — loose, typo-tolerant matching

Use this when you want to see the matching lines in context across the whole notebook, not just jump to a file.

Find in the current note — ⌘F

⌘F toggles an in-note search bar (CodeMirror's own find) scoped to the open note — the conventional equivalent of vim's /. Press ⌘F again to close it. Vim users can keep using / and ? as normal.