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Klipy’s note search matches a note’s title only — a note’s body is stored as rich-text content, not a plain-text field search can scan, so a word written only inside the note is invisible to search. If there’s a term you’ll want to find later, put it in the note’s title, not just the body.

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What you’ll see

  • You search for a word or phrase you know is written inside a specific note, and that note doesn’t show up — even though you can find it easily by scrolling your notes list by hand.
  • This happens no matter how exact your search term is: a single distinctive word or an exact phrase copied from the note’s body gets the same result. If the word isn’t in the note’s title, the note won’t appear.
  • The note itself is unaffected — its content displays normally once you open it. The gap is specifically in Klipy’s note search, not in how notes are stored or displayed.
  • This is separate from searching contacts, companies, or deals in your Rolodex, which works differently and isn’t affected by this limitation.

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Why it happens

Klipy’s note search only matches a note’s title: it narrows the list to notes whose title contains your search term, case-insensitively, and never looks inside the note’s body. That’s because a note’s body is saved as a rich-text document (an internal structure describing formatting, not a plain-text field) rather than a simple string a search query can scan directly — there is a step in Klipy meant to index note bodies for search, but it’s currently disabled and doesn’t do anything yet. Title-only search is the current, honest scope of Klipy’s note search, not a bug limited to certain notes or accounts. Every note in Klipy is affected equally, regardless of length, age, or whether it was created manually or generated from a meeting transcript.

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What to do now

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Search by the note's title

Use words from the note’s title in Klipy’s note search. That’s the only field search currently matches.
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Put searchable terms in the title going forward

When you create a note with information you’ll want to find later — a company name, a project name, or a key term — write it into the title itself rather than only in the body. A note’s title can hold more than a short label.
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Fall back to scrolling your notes list

If you can’t recall the exact title, your notes list can be scrolled and skimmed manually. This is the only way today to find a note whose title doesn’t match what you remember.

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When to contact us

Contact us if a note doesn’t show up in Klipy’s note search even though its title clearly matches what you typed. That’s a different issue than the title-only search limitation and worth reporting. This is separate from Rolodex search, which covers contacts, companies, and deals and isn’t affected by this limitation — see “How to Search Your Rolodex” for that.
No. This applies only to Klipy’s note search. Searching contacts, companies, and deals in your Rolodex is a separate feature and isn’t affected by the title-only limitation.
Not today. The step meant to index note content for search exists in Klipy but is currently disabled, so there’s no timeline to share for when body search will work.
Yes. Title-only search applies to every note in Klipy the same way, regardless of whether you typed it yourself or Klipy created it automatically from a meeting.
Yes. Editing a note’s title updates what Klipy’s search can match immediately, so you can add a term to an existing note’s title at any time if you find you need to search for it later.
Last modified on July 30, 2026