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Search Panel

The Search dock widget is VNote's full search interface. Where United Entry is a fast, command-driven jump box, the search panel gives you the full set of options for finding notes by name or by content across your notebooks.

Open the Search dock widget from the navigation bar or its shortcut. Type your query, choose the scope and target, and run the search; results appear in the panel, and selecting one opens the note.

Search has two dimensions: what you match on and where you look.

Match on:

  • Content — the text inside notes (full-text search).
  • Name — the names of folders and files.
  • Tag — notes carrying a given tag.

Look in:

  • All notebooks — everything you have open in VNote.
  • Current notebook — the notebook you are working in.
  • Current folder — the selected folder and, where applicable, its subfolders.
  • Buffers — the notes currently open in tabs.

Combining these lets you go from a broad "find this phrase anywhere" to a narrow "find this name in this folder."

Search options

The panel exposes options to refine a query: case sensitivity, regular expressions, and a wildcard file pattern. Use them to tighten results when a plain keyword returns too much.

Working with results

Results list the matching notes (and the matching lines for content searches). Select a result to open the note at the match. From there, the outline and in-note find help you pinpoint the exact spot.

Search panel vs. United Entry

  • Use the search panel when you want options — scope, match type, regex — and a browsable list of results.
  • Use United Entry when you know what you want and prefer to type a short command and jump, without leaving the keyboard.

Both draw on the same index, so they are two front ends to the same fast search.