PWA keyboard shortcut for search

19 votes

Would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut for the search bar in the PWA. We can use the quick open shortcut to search by Note title, but being able to "global search" throughout all notes with a hotkey would put Amplenote (even further) ahead of OneNote and Evernote for me.

Under consideration effort-low hotkeys Suggested by: josefismael (12 Jan, '23) • Upvoted: 13 Dec, '24 • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

25 Apr, '23
Kamil Osei Devonish
Agreed. In an application where you seldom need to touch your mouse, this seems like a no brainer and an omission. I would understand if the quick open had a setting to search note contents. But without being able to combine the two functions there, the use of the mouse or multiple tabbing to get to the search bar has subconsciously bothered me for months.
09 Jun, '24
David Trapp
I have the same issue. I keep reaching to Ctrl+Q like I'm used to from Evernote.
For this reason, I created a workaround. Install the extension "TamperMonkey" in your browser, and then install this userscript I made: https://david-trapp.com/misc/amplenote_hotkeys.user.js - After this, reload the Amplenote page and from now on Ctrl+Q will focus the search field and select its contents, if any.
30 Aug, '24
John Merged
Currently we need to use the mouse to use the full search (Ctrl + O is really good for Jump to Note, but we need something like it for full search).
Maybe a popup page could show up, allowing for some extra options; but this is extra.
It would seriously improve the full searching experience.
Thanks!
08 Sep, '24
Lucian Admin Merged
Hey there Josh! If you could do a little bit of research as to what hotkey we could use for this (such that the hotkey is not a commonly used hotkey in Windows, Linux and macOS, as well as Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge), I'm pretty sure the team would add that hotkey in less than a week's time.
11 Sep, '24
Josh Merged
Thanks!
After quite a bit of research, have found this potential shortcut: Alt + /
Could this work?
12 Sep, '24
Lucian Admin Merged
I think that makes sense. Suggesting to the team.
17 Oct, '24
Lucian Admin
"Shortcut to open (full) search" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-08-30), including upvotes (5) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.
13 Dec, '24
Darren
Would be great to see this for the web too, not just the PWA application.