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cdno search

Full-text search across all notes, ranked best-first, with optional filters by note type, date window, and portfolio.

cdno search [OPTIONS] <QUERY>

Arguments

ArgumentDescription
<QUERY>Search text. Matched case-insensitively; terms are ANDed. Quotes and operators are treated as literal words.

Options

FlagDescription
--type <TYPE>Restrict to one note type (e.g. daily, project, evidence, or a config-defined custom type). A name that is neither built-in nor a registered custom type errors with the valid set; tab-completion offers your vault’s types.
--from <FROM>Inclusive earliest note date (YYYY-MM-DD).
--to <TO>Inclusive latest note date (YYYY-MM-DD).
--portfolio <PORTFOLIO>Restrict to notes in this portfolio.
--limit <LIMIT>Maximum results. Default 20.

Plus the global options. With --json, emits an array of hits, each with path, note_type, title, snippet, and score.

Examples

cdno search "preconditioner"
cdno search "sparse attention" --type evidence
cdno search "mesh" --from 2026-03-01 --to 2026-03-31 --limit 5
cdno search "speedup" --portfolio sparse-vs-dense-attention-ood --json | jq -r '.[].path'

search_notes.

See also