Search your notes
Search finds the notes that contain every word you type, in one folder or across all your notes.
Start a search
- On the Mac, click Search (the magnifier) in the toolbar, or press ⇧⌘F.
- On iPhone, tap Search all notes on the Folders screen, or the search field at the bottom of a folder.
- On iPad, tap the search field at the top right of the note list.
What it finds
- Notes whose title or text contains every word you type, in any order.
- Words that start with what you typed, so garden finds gardening.
- In a title, the letters can match anywhere, so den finds Garden.
- Words in the PDFs a note links to, scans included.
Notes with your words together, as you typed them, usually come first, then notes with the words in their title. Notes that match equally well are listed most recently edited first.
Search a folder or all your notes
When you search inside a folder, two buttons appear side by side: the folder’s name and All Notes, each with its number of matches. Choose All Notes to search everywhere.
Search by tag
Type # and the start of a tag, then choose the tag from the suggestions. The note list then shows only notes with that tag. To remove the tag filter, click or tap the selected tag above the note list again.
To search within a tag, choose the tag above the note list, then type your words.
Find words in the open note
On the Mac, choose Edit ▸ Find ▸ Find… (⌘F), or Find and Replace… (⌥⌘F). This isn’t available on iPhone and iPad.
If you can’t find a note
- Check whether you’re searching the folder or All Notes.
- Look in Recently Deleted, where deleted notes stay for 30 days.
- With Soot Pro, check the note has synced. See Notes that won’t sync.
Having trouble? Email hello at sootsync dot com and I’ll help.