Finding cards with search

When a project grows past a few dozen cards, "I know I wrote this down somewhere" becomes a daily emotion. Search is the cure.

Opening search

Press <kbd>⌘K</kbd> (<kbd>Ctrl+K</kbd> on Windows and Linux) anywhere in Cork, or click the search box in the header. Start typing; results update with every keystroke. Arrow keys move through the list and <kbd>Enter</kbd> opens the selected card directly.

What search looks through

Every card's title, body text, and tags — so a search for lighthouse finds cards named "The lighthouse", cards that merely mention one, and cards tagged lighthouse. Each result shows the card's color, a snippet of its content, its tags, and which board it lives on.

Scoping to one board

Open search while you're on a board and it starts scoped to This board, with a toggle to widen to All boards. From your boards page, search always covers everything.

Searching by tag

Prefix your query with # to match tags only: #revision finds cards tagged revision and skips cards that merely contain the word. Handy when a tag name is an ordinary word that appears everywhere in your prose.

Search tips

• Search is case-insensitive and matches partial words — light finds "lighthouse."
• Multi-word queries match cards containing the words anywhere, so mara letters finds the card where those two ideas finally meet.
• For connections you meant to make rather than words you happened to type, see wiki-links and backlinks — search finds text, backlinks find structure.