Incremental search

The incremental search is used to quickly find text inside a note. The search is incremental, meaning that it will search and highlight matches for each key you type . Even if the search is designed to help you find text it can also be used to navigate the text very quickly. The incremental search is inspired by Leaping which was invented by human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin. To help you we have taken advantage of probably the least used key on your keyboard - the CapsLock key. On many keyboards this is one of the largest keys, but it is hardly ever used.

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To activate the incremental search, you may use Ctrl + F or Caps Lock.

Now, as you type, all matching words in the document is highlighted (see right).

To navigate to the next word you simply press arrow down (or up for previous).

When you have found the word you are looking for, pressing Enter will return focus to the editor with the current match selected and highlighted.

If you press CapsLock to exit instead of Enter, focus will return to the front of the matched word in the editor (but not selected) - this is very useful for quickly jumping around in the document ("leaping").

In addition to highlighting all the matches, the statusbar will show the total number of matches. This can be useful to help you consider if you're using certain words too often.


When the incremental search has been completed, you may navigate to the next/previous match by pressing F3 (or Shift+F3). If you press and hold the F3 button, all matches will be highlighted until you release the key.

And the incremental search has even more power to increase usability and efficiency. Using arrow left and right makes no sense for incremental search, and they have therefore a different usage when incremental search is active:

- Left arrow: Reset/empty search
- Right arrow: Expand/complete current selected word