Search and the command palette
Press Cmd-K or forward slash to open the command palette. It searches cluster names, card titles and text, notes, the words inside documents, files by name, and tags, and it also runs commands — create a cluster, share this one, open messages, toggle the theme, open trash, sign out. It is the fastest route to almost anything in the app.
⌘K, or / when you are not typing into something.
What it searches
- Recents — what you have had open
- Clusters — by name
- Cards and notes — by title, and by the first 500 characters of their text
- Files — by the name the file was uploaded with, so a photo nobody captioned is found as
diner_ext_dusk_04.jpg(photos and videos uploaded since names were kept; audio, PDFs and attachments always had theirs) - Pictures — by what is in them. Each picture is described by an AI model a few minutes after it lands, so
red carornight exteriorfinds the photo even when nobody named or captioned it. A picture found this way shows a small preview and says In the picture. Not in a workspace whose AI suggestions are off - Tags — by name. Type
#and a tag's name, as in#diner, to list everything carrying it instead: cards, groups, clusters and document pages, each opened in place - Docs — by title, and by the words on every page: a match shows the line it came from, under Inside docs, and opens the document at that page
A document written before search learned to read it is indexed the next time it, or anything else in its cluster, is edited. Inside one long document, ⌘F finds every occurrence on the page you are on.
Results are grouped by kind, so a query matching a board and a note shows you both, labelled.
What it does
The palette also runs commands. Type the verb rather than the noun:
| Command | Effect |
|---|---|
| New project | A new cluster at the top of your workspace, opened |
| New note | A note on the current board |
| Go to Home | Your clusters, over the relationship graph |
| Link a cluster onto canvas | Place a reference to another board |
| Open split view | Two boards side by side |
| Share this cluster | The share dialog |
| Messages | Your conversations |
| Toggle theme | Light / dark |
| Toggle sidebar | |
| Open trash | Deleted clusters |
| Open settings | |
| Account and billing | Plans |
| Invite friends | Referrals |
| Sign out |
Pickers
The same interface is reused wherever the app needs you to choose something — a board to link, a destination to move to, a document to embed. If you know how to use ⌘K, you already know how to use those.
When to use something else
- Browsing one cluster's contents by type, size or date — Files
- Everything on a theme, across the workspace — tags
- Seeing how things relate rather than finding one — Home graph
- Inside one long document —
⌘Ffind and replace
Frequently asked questions
Does search look inside my notes and documents?
Yes. Documents are searched by the words on their pages, and a result opens the document at the page it came from. Cards and notes are searched by their title and the first 500 characters of their text. A document written before search learned to read it is picked up the next time it, or anything in its cluster, is edited.
Can I run actions from it?
Yes. Type what you want to do rather than what you want to find. "share", "invite", "trash", "theme", "billing" all work.
Is there a shortcut other than Cmd-K?
Forward slash opens it too, when you are not typing into something.
Machine-readable: /docs/organize/search.md · /llms.txt
What changed and when: /changelog