Search is at the heart of finding information in Notejoy. Type in your search term and you’ll get lightning fast search results, complete with a preview pane to quickly scroll through results and your search term highlighted throughout each note.

Compare this to your prior search experience in say Google Docs. You type your search team, see a list of document titles, start slowly loading each of the documents in separate tabs. And even when you get into the doc, your search term isn’t highlighted. It’s no wonder that people rarely attempt to use Google Docs to search for anything other than the documents they already know exist. In contrast, our users have called searching in Notejoy “a real pleasure.”

Activating search

The fastest way to start a search is via our Cmd + / (Mac) or Ctrl + / (Windows) keyboard shortcut.

Navigating search results

Notejoy makes it super quick to review search results. Just use â–¼ and â–² to quickly navigate between note results. Notejoy will automatically highlight each occurrence of your search keywords throughout each note. You can toggle between each occurrence by pressing Cmd+â–¼ and Cmd+â–² (Mac) or Ctrl+â–¼ and Ctrl+â–² (Windows).

Search across all libraries

Notejoy searches across all of the personal and team libraries you have access to. This enables you to very quickly find exactly what you are looking for, regardless of where the note lives.

But if you'd like to only search a specific library or notebook, you can use the library: and notebook: search operators explained below.

Search across all fields

Notejoy performs a full-text search across the following note fields:

• titles
• bodies
• comments
• filenames of attached images and documents
• the content of attached images and documents

This way you know regardless of where your keyword might exist, you can find it. But if you'd like to only search a specific field you can use the field search operators explained below to more precisely target your search.

Sorting search results

Search results by default are sorted by keyword, showing you the results based on how frequently your keywords occur in the title & body of your notes. However, you can change to sorting search results by last modified date, created date, as well as alphabetically by note title. Simply click the sort icon in the top left corner of the search results column to toggle the sort.

Once you change the sort option for search results, that becomes the new default for future searches across all your web, desktop, and mobile searches.

Search snippets

The notes list shows a snippet of where your query shows up within the note, giving you additional context on whether this note is what you're looking for. It will also tell you if your query was found in a comment, in a filename, or in the content of an image or document.

Search operators

Notejoy supports a robust set of search operators to help you to precisely refine your query:

You can find a cheat sheet of all search operators in our shortcuts dialog by pressing ?.