Search for a Note by name to travel to that note

Feature Requests
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I will have a collection of maybe like 150-200 notes, and it would be great to be able to travel to a note that I know by name just by typing it. Currently the search bar searches all contents, but it might be useful to have a search bar seated directly above the list/tags/outline panel, that way I could search “LOTR” and be able to call up that specific note.

Another way to invoke the search could be a keyboard shortcut like spotlights CMD+Space, and then I could just type LOTR - no search bar needed

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Try CTRL-S to bring up the Note Selector menu, type in the name of the note you’re looking for, and select “Go to” from the drop-down menu at the bottom center.

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Thank you! that does it. So if I do ctrl + s, and make sure the selection is “Go To” that’s the behavior I was looking for. Thank you for the suggestion.

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@ThePrinter has a great suggestion, probably better than mine!

But another option is to use the Advanced Search option, and uncheck everything except the title field. And then one thing to know is that, once you set those options, they will remain in effect for subsequent searches, until you invoke the Advanced Search again.

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I am a liberal note-namer and sometimes I’m note sure of the name of a note and too impatient to read through the list of suggested names in Note Selector menu. Your suggestion is great for traveling through various notes with like titles and getting the complete “image” of the note as you go along.

Another thought that comes to mind that is probably particular to my own workflow, but which I credit to you and @learg12 for raising the topic here:

Using the query builder and filtering out notes by their title according to a given query.

This gives us a third representation of data and means of browsing through it, one that is more permanent if we save the results to a file and pull it up as needed.

Then, for example, we can search through an HTML page in our web browser to find a note and go to it. I’m envisioning other fields to appear in this query also, i.e. tags, type or teaser, to make finding a particular note easier.

Sometimes I’m so locked into a different program (usually reading something in a web browser) that I think of something I’ve written in a note, but I don’t want to

  1. Go to Notenik.
  2. Look for the note.
  3. Think about why I did steps one and two.

I’m theorizing that bookmarks to queries that are relevant to my web browsing habits would make the transition from web page to Notenik a little swifter.

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