Search

Search lives in the command palette. Press ⌘K (or its alias ⌘P) to open it: it shows commands first, and as you type it searches the full text of every note in your vault.

What it searches and how it ranks

Search covers each note’s title and body, and ranks results by relevance (using BM25). A few specifics worth knowing:

• All your terms must match: typing two words finds notes containing both.
• The last word matches as a prefix, so results narrow as you type rus → rust.
• Title matches rank higher than body-only matches.
• Results are capped at the top matches, so the list stays focused.
• Search understands word stems in English, Turkish, and German: searching “running” also finds “run”. Other languages match on the exact words.

Results update live as your notes change, because the index keeps up with your edits.

What a result shows, and what it doesn’t

Each result shows the note’s title. If a note matched only in its body, it carries a small ↳ matched in body hint so you know why it’s there.

What you never see is a snippet of the note’s text. That is deliberate: results never decrypt your notes just to preview them. The search index holds what it needs to rank matches, not readable copies of your content, so a result list can’t leak a line you’d rather keep closed.

Notes in the Trash and notes marked as templates are hidden from the sidebar and never appear in search results. Search also returns nothing while the vault is locked; there is no index to read until you unlock.

Private by design

The search index is encrypted like your notes; if it’s ever missing, Myne rebuilds it, which costs one slower unlock and nothing more. How that fits the wider model is covered in How Myne protects your notes.

This is the in-app search; the search box on this website is separate and only searches these guide pages.

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