Searching
Use the search box above your notes list, or Search notes in the sidebar, and type. Results narrow as you go; when nothing matches you’ll get “No notes found for …” rather than an empty screen.Two ways of matching
OpenWhispr searches in two ways at once, which is why a search sometimes finds the right note even when your words aren’t in it:
Both run on your own machine. Meaning-based search works from an index
OpenWhispr builds locally as notes are saved.
Searching a meeting
Meeting transcripts are searchable like any other note, so a name or a phrase from a call three weeks ago is a search away. If you named the speakers, their names are part of the text and searchable too — see speaker labels.Asking rather than searching
When you’re not looking for a note but for an answer, the chat agent searches your notes for you and answers from what it finds — useful for questions like “what did we decide about pricing?” that span several notes. Each note also has its own chat panel, scoped to just that note. See the chat agent.If a note doesn’t turn up
- Check which space you’re in. Notes in a team space are listed separately from your personal ones.
- Check it was saved at all. With Data Retention turned off, dictations are pasted but never stored — see what we store.
- Try a phrase from the middle of it rather than the title. Titles are often auto-generated and may not say what you remember.
- If a dictation went missing rather than a note, there’s a specific recovery path — see recover a lost dictation.