Search

Jump to any Collection, entry, or page instantly with the search palette — by title, or by the words inside an entry.

Search is the fastest way to get anywhere in Kaizendex. Open it, start typing a title, and jump straight to the result.

Open search

Click Search at the top of the sidebar (on phones, tap Search in the bottom bar), or
Press ⌘K (Mac) / Ctrl+K (Windows & Linux) from anywhere.

A box opens in the middle of the screen. Before you type, it shows the pages you visited most recently, so a single keystroke isn't even needed to get back to where you were.

What it searches

Search matches by title first — like Notion. It looks across:

your Collections (your trackers, e.g. Mood, Workouts),
your entries that have their own title (e.g. a diary entry titled 322 diary),
your sidebar folders — opening one lands on the folder's own page, listing everything inside it, and
built-in pages (Dashboard, Calendar, Trash, Settings, your chats, and more).

It's fuzzy and accent-insensitive: you can type part of a title, in any order, and accents don't matter — searching cafe finds Café, and lodz finds Łódź.

Searching inside your entries

Below the title matches, an In text section lists entries whose contents contain what you typed — a diary body, a comment, the text of a page, a saved link's address. Each row shows the entry's title with a short passage around the matching words, so you can tell which one you meant before opening it.

A few things to know:

Every word you type has to appear in the entry (the last one can be unfinished — grandp already finds grandpa). Accents and capitals don't matter here either, and it works in any language.
Newer entries rank a little higher than old ones when the match is equally good.
Up to six text matches are shown, and an entry that already appears by title isn't repeated.
It all runs on your device from your local copy of the data — nothing is sent anywhere, and it works offline. Right after you sign in on a new device, the text index is built quietly in the background; for a few seconds after a large first sync the section may fill in as you watch.

If an entry's text doesn't seem to be found, check that the words are actually in one of its properties or its page body — search reads what's stored, not what an AI summarised.

Why you don't see a hundred identical results

When you log a Mood entry without giving it a title, it's named after its Collection — so a busy Mood tracker has lots of entries all called "Mood". Search doesn't list every one of them. Instead it shows the Collection Mood at the top, with your newest entry beneath it. Tap the Collection to see them all.

The same applies to repeated custom titles: if one Collection holds many entries with the exact same title (say, dozens of runs all called Historic Run), search shows only the newest of them. This is per-Collection — an entry called Historic Run in a different Collection still shows up separately.

Entries with a unique title show up individually. So if you title each diary entry by its day (e.g. 322 diary), searching 322 diary takes you straight to that one.

Your go-to pages float to the top

With the box empty, search lists the pages you visit most — a blend of how often and how recently you open them, so your daily favourites sit right at the top even if you last opened something else. The same signal gently boosts those pages while you type. This lives only on the device you're using; your phone and your computer each learn their own habits.

Now that you can get anywhere fast, learn how everything you track runs on one universal engine — or see every keyboard shortcut in one place.