On Mac, ⌘K opens the same bar, where you can also type a command.
Search
Find any capture by typing words you remember from it.
- Open
- ⌘Fon Mac
- On
- Mac, iPhone, iPad
Search your library
Search looks in the view you're in: the whole library, or the space you have open. The field says which.
Press ⌘F, or click the magnifier at the right end of the library header.
Type. The library shows matches as you type.
Press Return to keep the words as a chip, or pick a suggestion to add a filter. The bar stays open for the next one.
Chips show under the library title. Remove one with its ×, or click Clear to remove them all.
Tap Search your library… at the top of the library. Suggestion pills appear under it.
Type. The library shows the results after a short pause.
Press Return to keep the words as a chip, or tap a pill to add a filter.
Tap × at the right of the field to close search.
What search looks in
Search reads more than titles. It looks in:
- Titles, descriptions and your note.
- The text of notes, saved articles and PDFs, scanned pages included.
- Words in images and screenshots.
- Transcripts.
- AI summaries, comments and highlights.
- Tags, space names and authors.
- The web address, site, source app and file names.
Captures in the Trash are left out.
Text read from a page, PDF, image or recording is added once it's ready, so a new capture can take a moment to show up by what's inside it.
How words match
- Part of a word is enough: “kern” finds “kerning”. Capital letters don't matter.
- Words typed together are one phrase: “design system” finds those words side by side, in that order.
- To find captures with either of two words, press Return after each one. Each becomes a chip, and a capture that matches any word chip shows.
- While you search, the order is Best match: a match in the title ranks highest, then tags, spaces, the site and the web address, then anything else.
Search inside a PDF
On Mac, ⌘F searches the open PDF instead of your library.
Open a PDF capture and press ⌘F, or click the magnifier in its toolbar.
Type in Find in PDF. It shows which match you're on.
Press Return for the next match and ⇧Return for the previous one, or use the arrows.
Press Esc or click × to close it.
To search your library while a PDF is open, press ⌘K or close the PDF.
Questions
Where is the search field on Mac?
Click the magnifier at the right of the library header, or press ⌘F. It opens the search bar, where you type.
Why does a search with a color name show only images?
A color name such as orange or rose turns into a color filter, which keeps only images and color captures. Leave the color word out to search the rest.