Learn · Search your vault
Find any note in three keystrokes
Cmd+K on Mac, Ctrl+K everywhere else. Type a few words. Hit enter. That is the whole thing. This page covers the small tricks that make the search land on the right note even when you only half-remember what you wrote.
The basics
Cmd+K, type, enter
The search bar sits one keystroke away from anywhere in
the app. Open Korely, hit
Cmd+K
on Mac or
Ctrl+K
on Windows and Linux, start typing.
Results show up as you type, ranked by relevance. The top
hit is usually the note you want. Press
Enter
to open it,
↑
and
↓
to walk the list, or
Esc
to dismiss without picking anything.
No menus, no toolbar, no settings page. The keyboard shortcut is the search.
Search by meaning
Type what you mean, not the exact words
Korely runs two searches at once. One looks for the exact words you typed. The other looks for notes that talk about the same idea, even when the wording is different. Both rankings get merged into a single list of results.
That means you can type quarterly numbers and still find the note titled Q3 revenue review with finance. Or onboarding flow and surface the meeting note where you wrote "the first time a new user opens the app".
Hand-wave the search a little and it still lands. That is the whole point of mixing the two engines.
Filters
Narrow it down by folder or tag
The search bar has two pickers on the right side: a folder picker and a tag picker. Pick a folder and the results come only from that folder and its subfolders. Pick a tag and you only see notes carrying it.
Filters stack. Searching "action items" inside the folder Clients/Acme with the tag #meeting gives you the meeting notes for that one client with action items in them. Clear any of the pickers with the small × next to it to widen the scope again.
Tips that pay off
A few small tricks
- Search by person. Type a name and Korely surfaces every note that mentions them. People show up in the knowledge graph too, so the same query feeds the related notes panel on the side.
- Search by month. Type "last april" or "october team offsite". Dates get parsed alongside the words.
- Long queries are fine. You can type a whole question. The meaning-based engine prefers context, so a full sentence often beats one keyword.
- Nothing found? Try a synonym, or drop the filters. If a note exists and still does not show, the index might be re-building. It catches up within a few seconds of saving a note.
Frequently asked
How do I open search in Korely? +−
Cmd+K on Mac, Ctrl+K on Windows or Linux. The search bar opens over everything you have on screen. Hit Escape to dismiss it without picking a result.
Does Korely search the content of my notes, or only their titles? +−
Both. Korely indexes every word of every note plus a meaning-based embedding. The result list mixes exact word matches and notes that talk about the same idea using different words.
Can I filter results by folder or tag? +−
Yes. The search bar has a folder picker and a tag picker on the right side. Pick one and the result list narrows to that scope. Clear it to search the whole vault again.
Why is the first result not always an exact title match? +−
Korely ranks results by relevance, not by where the keyword sits. A note whose body discusses the topic in depth can rank above one that only mentions the word in the title. Hit the folder picker if you want to scope down.
Does search work offline? +−
Yes. The whole index lives on your disk. Nothing leaves your machine when you search, even if cloud sync is on.
Try it on your own notes
Free forever. Your data stays on your machine until you say so.