This agenda view is a general text search facility for Org mode entries. It is particularly useful to find notes.
org-search-view) ¶This is a special search that lets you select entries by matching a substring or specific words using a boolean logic.
For example, the search string ‘computer equipment’ matches entries that contain ‘computer equipment’ as a substring, even if the two words are separated by more space or a line break.
Search view can also search for specific keywords in the entry, using
Boolean logic. The search string ‘+computer
+wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}’ matches note entries that contain the
keywords ‘computer’ and ‘wifi’, but not the keyword ‘ethernet’, and
which are also not matched by the regular expression ‘8\.11[bg]’,
meaning to exclude both ‘8.11b’ and ‘8.11g’. The first ‘+’ is
necessary to turn on boolean search, other ‘+’ characters are
optional. For more details, see the docstring of the command
org-search-view.
You can incrementally and conveniently adjust a boolean search from the agenda search view with the following keys
| [ | Add a positive search word |
| ] | Add a negative search word |
| { | Add a positive regular expression |
| } | Add a negative regular expression |
Note that in addition to the agenda files, this command also searches
the files listed in org-agenda-text-search-extra-files.