# The search manual

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**Table of contents · 25 October 2026 · S16 of plan CORE. One search for the whole app; each product adds its own kinds
of record to it.**

Press **Ctrl K** (**⌘K** on a Mac) on any page, or the **Search** box in the header, and type. Search finds people,
roles, pages, settings and things to do (add a person, import, switch workspace, the theme), groups what it finds, and
marks the letters you typed. A misspelt name still finds. Enter opens what is chosen.

The one sentence to carry through it: **search only ever finds what you could open yourself**: a person the People list
shows you, a page in your menu, a setting on a page you may see.

**Who meets what**

| Seat | Who | What they find |
|---|---|---|
| Anyone signed in | Every person, every role | Their own pages, their own settings, the theme, switching to another of their workspaces |
| Staff with access | Whoever's role holds the permission a kind needs | People (*View people*), roles (*View roles*), the workspace's pages and settings, Add a person, Import people, New role, each as their role allows |
| The Service | The platform owner, without a lens | Workspaces, the platform's pages and settings, Open a lens; never a workspace's records |
| The Service, through a lens | Looking as one member | What that member would find, and nothing of its own |

**As shipped**

| | Shipped |
|---|---|
| Opens with | Ctrl K (⌘K on a Mac), or the header's Search box |
| Shows | 5 of each kind (15 when narrowed to one) |
| A misspelling | is looked for from four letters, when nothing matched as typed |
| Recent picks | the last 6, kept for each workspace |
| Searches a minute | 120 for one person (the platform's *Searches a minute*) |

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## Part 1 · Search

- [1.1 Finding something and going there](p01-search.md#11-finding-something-and-going-there)
- [1.2 Narrowing to people, pages or actions](p01-search.md#12-narrowing-to-people-pages-or-actions)
- [1.3 Searching as the Service](p01-search.md#13-searching-as-the-service)