Search that shows you why it matched

Searching your notes is only useful if you can tell, at a glance, why a result came up.

In /CMD-Note, /s now highlights the words you searched for in every result. Every time a word appears, not just the first, and whatever the casing. If you search for more than one word, like /s apple, banana, all of them light up. You can scan a long list and see where each match is without reading every note.

The other half is for the times your fingers get ahead of you. If a search finds nothing, /s now looks for close matches to a misspelled word, so /s aple can still find your note about apples. A small line tells you these are close matches, so you know it wasn't an exact hit. If anything matches exactly, you only see exact results. Quoted phrases and tags stay exact too, so you never get surprises where you were being specific.

It's an early version of search, and we want it to stay quick and predictable. But it should already feel kinder: you see why a note matched, and a typo doesn't leave you staring at an empty list.

Try it at cmd-note.vercel.app