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Memos feature

Find it when you need it

Search the text of your memos, or write a filter and save it as a view to run again.

Find a memo again by searching its text, or filter by tag, date, visibility, and more.

Ways to find a memo

Search a phrase, pick a tag, or reopen a saved View to narrow the timeline.

Ways to find a memo

Type a word or phrase to see every memo that contains it.

Home“pottery”1 of 6 memos

Benefits

What changes when you use it.

Each point describes what current Memos releases do.

  • Search the text of your memos, with matches highlighted

  • Case-insensitive matching

  • Filter by tag, visibility, time range, pinned state, links, code, tasks, or location

  • Save a filter as a view and open it from the sidebar

  • Results follow the current Space, view, and tag filters

  • Look back through a day or month with Calendar, or by place with Map

Use cases

Where it earns its place.

Finding a Past Note

Search for a word you remember and open the memo it came from.

Research Organization

Filter research notes by tag and date to narrow a long history.

Open Tasks

Save a view for unchecked task items and see every open task across your memos.

Technical details

The implementation stays inspectable.

  • Case-insensitive text matching in SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL

  • CEL filter expressions translated to SQL

  • Validate a filter before saving it as a view

  • The same filter syntax in the app and the API

Start here

Start with one memo.

Install Memos on a server you choose, then explore the rest of the features.