vnote/en_us/docs/Users/Full-Text Search.md

Full-Text Search

VNote provides powerful built-in full-text search to search your notes.

Ctrl+E C or Ctrl+Alt F to activate the Search dock widget. You could also activate it through the Edit or View menu.

Keywords

• Specify the keywords to search for;
• Support && and || for AND and OR logics, such as markdown && vnote;
• Space-separated keywords mean AND, such as markdown vnote;

Magic Switch

VNote supports Magic Switch in the keywords to turn on/off some options of the search:

• \f or \F: disable or enable Fuzzy Search;
• \c or \C: case insensitive or sensitive;
• \r or \R: disable or enable Regular Expression;
• \w or \W: disable or enable Whole Word Only;

Example: vnote \C \W to search vnote with case-insensitive and whole-word-only.

Scope

There are four scopes to constrain the search:

• Opened Notes;
• Current Folder;
• Current Notebook;
• All Notebooks;

Object

Specify whether the search should be executed against the Content or the Name.

Target

We could search among:

• Note;
• Folder;
• Notebook;
• Note/Folder/Notebook;

File Pattern

We could specify the file pattern to filter the files we are interested in, such as *.md to search only Markdown files.