Boat Note → About → Note Search

Full-text search across all notes, titles, links, and text extracted from photos.

Tap the search bar to search across all your notes and media. Results update as you type. Search covers: note title and content, link URLs, photos, videos, audio recordings, sketches, and any text that AI has extracted from images or transcribed from audio and video. If you ran image analysis on a photo of a whiteboard, search finds the words on that board. Results include all item types - notes and media appear together. Use the filter row alongside search to narrow by flag, list, date, location, media type, or nudge status. Search works offline - it queries your local device, not a server, so results are instant. Nudge filter The bell icon in the filter bar filters by reminder state: Any nudge shows all notes with a nudge set (past or future). Upcoming only shows notes with a future nudge, sorted by closest date first. Natural language search For more flexible queries - "show me my unflagged notes from last month with a photo" - use Boat Assist. It translates plain-language requests into filtered results with one-tap actions on each note.

Learn more about Boat Note features at https://www.boatnote.app/about/search.