Search

Written By Manos Mastorakis

Last updated About 9 hours ago

You can search for any object or text in Routine by clicking the magnifying glass icon in the menu or using the CMD/CTRL+P keyboard shortcut.

✍️ What you can search

Search covers everything in your workspace:

  • Tasks (personal and team)

  • Events and meetings

  • Pages and documents

  • Contacts

  • Projects

  • Custom objects and database entries

  • Text content within notes and pages

Search is global — it looks across your entire workspace, including all organizations and workspaces you have access to.

🎙️ How to use Search

  1. Press CMD/CTRL+P or click the magnifying glass icon in the sidebar

  2. Start typing — results appear instantly as you type

  3. Use ↑ and ↓ to navigate results

  4. Press ENTER to open the selected object

  5. Press ESCAPE to close search without navigating

💡 Search is case-insensitive and normalizes accented characters, so searching "foo" will match "fôo".

⁉️ Tips for better search

  • Search by title or content — Routine searches both object titles and the text inside notes and pages

  • Be specific — the more characters you type, the more precise the results

  • Use it for navigation — search is the fastest way to jump to any screen, object, or page without clicking through the menu

  • Recent objects — search surfaces recently visited objects at the top even before you start typing

🤖 AI as an alternative

For more conversational or context-aware retrieval, the AI assistant can help surface objects naturally:

  • "Show me all tasks related to the Acme project"

  • "Find my notes from last Thursday's meeting"

  • "What do I have scheduled for next week?"

This is especially useful when you don't remember the exact name of what you're looking for.