Search Notes and Documents
At the top of each book view you find a search bar. Tap it to bring up the keyboard.
Enter your search key and tap the Search button on the keyboard. Before you do so you may decide whether you want to search
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-titles only, which will search the titles of all books, task lists, documents and tasks
You can tick off tasks in the list of search results, too! -
-titles and contents of the documents, which will in addition search the contents of plain text, HTML, RTF, iWork and MS Office documents, as well as web archives.
For iWork documents, please make sure that they do NOT contain a preview, otherwise their contents cannot be searched.
Please keep in mind, the iPhone and iPod touch do not have the power of a desktop computer and it might take a few seconds for the search to complete.
In version 3.1, Notebooks has introduced a new index, so the first time you start a search it may take a little longer to complete.
By default, search is limited to the current book and everything contained within it. If you want to search all of your notes, start from the top level book. If you want to limit the scope of your search, move to the book you are interested in.
When opening a note or document from the list of results, Notebooks highlights all instances of your search key and scrolls to the first phrase in the note. When the phrase appears in the note more than once, Notebooks provides navigation arrows to quickly jump to the next or previous spot.
You can flick across the note (or its info bar) to move to the next document in the list and quickly skim through all search results.
Important change in Notebooks 3.0 and later
Due to changes we had to make in order to get 3.0 approved, search results are now read-only. If you want to edit a plain text document that you opened from the results table, either tap on one of the highlighted phrases or select “Edit” from the Action menu. This will open the note in an editable context.
