Find anything

Press Cmd+K to find a chat, note, person, topic, or file, filter the results, and preview before you open.

Updated October 6, 20265 min read

One search box finds everything in a space. Press Cmd+K, or select the Search pill at the top of the sidebar, and start typing.

Find a chat, note, person, or topic

Press Cmd+K.
Type a few letters of what you remember - a title, a name, or a phrase from a message.
Use ↑ and ↓ to move through the results, then press Enter to open one. Esc closes the box.

Results are grouped by kind: Topics, Threads, Notes, Nodes, Views, Files, People, and Actions. The part that matched is highlighted, and each row shows how long ago the item changed, such as 2h or 3d. Each kind shows its first 40 matches; select Show n more at the end of a group to see the rest.

What opening a result does:

A thread opens that chat. Its row shows the topic it lives in, such as in #onboarding.
A topic opens the topic and starts a new message already tagged with it.
A person opens them, ready for a direct message.
An action runs a command or jumps to a settings page or a single setting on it.
Ask Naumu: your text hands what you typed to Naumu when you'd rather ask than jump.

Pick up where you left off

With the box empty, a Recent section lists what you opened last. It follows you: a chat, note, node, view, or topic you opened on your phone shows up here on your laptop too.

Narrow the results

A row of pills sits under the search box. Press Tab to move into it.

All - the type picker. Choose one kind, such as Notes or People, to see only that. With the box empty, you can browse that kind without typing.
Unread - only chats with something you haven't read.
In - only chats filed in the topics you pick.
People - only chats with certain people in them. Switch In thread to Started by to find chats one person started, or pick Naumu (agent) for chats where Naumu or another agent replied.
Filter - Started through API shows chats created by a connected tool.
Clear - turns every filter off.

The filters apply to chats. Turn one on and the type switches to Threads. Pressing Backspace in an empty search box removes the last filter.

To search inside one topic, open the topic and click Search in its pane. The box opens with In already set to that topic.

Sort the results

Once you type, pick a type, or turn on a filter, a sort button appears at the right end of the pill row. Choose Modified (the default) to put recently changed items first, or Created to put the newest items first. The date on each row follows your choice. Naumu remembers it in that browser.

Sorting never buries the obvious hit: results whose title contains what you typed come first, then other matches, then typo guesses. The date order applies within each of those.

Preview before you open

On a computer, the right side of the box previews the selected result: the latest messages of a chat, the text of a note, a summary of a node, or a short description of a view, topic, or file. You can read it without leaving what you're doing.

The Cmd+K palette with the All, Unread, In, People and Filter pills and the sort button, results for "launch" grouped as Threads, Notes, Nodes and Files with a short date on each row, and a preview of the selected thread on the right. — Results are grouped by kind, and the selected one is previewed before you open it.

Copy link copies a link to the result. Cmd+L does the same for the selected row.
The button beside it (Open thread, Open note, and so on) opens the result, the same as Enter.
The button in the top-right corner hides the preview (Hide preview) or brings it back (Show preview).

What gets searched

Search matches titles and names, plus the messages of chats you're in, the full text of notes, and the content of nodes. Files are matched by file name. You only ever see results you already have access to.

How search works

The search box is a keyword search: it finds the words you typed, anywhere in the text. It is forgiving about how you type them:

Any order. "plan launch" finds Launch plan Q4. Every word has to match somewhere.
Accents and case don't matter. "fucek" finds Fućek.
Small typos. When fewer than five results match exactly, Naumu adds close spellings below them, so "lanch" still finds launch.
People by initials. Type two to four initials, such as "mk", to find Maya Kovac. People also match on their email address.

When you ask a question in chat, or pick Ask Naumu from the search box, Naumu searches memory by your exact words and by meaning. So a question about "login" can turn up an item called "authentication flow".

Remember the words? Use the search box. Only remember the idea? Ask Naumu. Need the complete list of something, such as every open task? Use a view.

Chatting with Naumu - ask instead of search
Topics - where chats are filed
Views - complete, filtered lists