Search
The search window, keyboard shortcuts, and the site/date filter syntax.
Press ⌥⇧Space to open the search window — a Spotlight-style panel that searches as you type. Press it again (or Esc) to dismiss.
Search is full-text over everything cap stores: titles, hosts, notes, selections,
extracted page bodies, and text recognized inside images. Matches on the title and
host rank highest, then notes and selections, then body text. While you’re typing,
the last word matches as a prefix — concur finds concurrency. Queries that don’t
match the full-text index also try a URL substring match, so pasting a fragment of a
URL works.
Keyboard
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ | Move the selection |
| ↩ | Open — links in the browser, images in the viewer; text is copied |
| ⌘↩ | Copy the URL (or the text) |
| ⌘⌫ | Delete the capture |
| Esc | Dismiss |
Filter syntax
Filters can be typed straight into the query, in the window or the CLI:
swift concurrency site:swift.org after:2026-01-01| Filter | Meaning |
|---|---|
site:swift.org |
Only captures from that host, subdomains included |
since:2026-01-01 / after:2026-01-01 |
Captured on or after that day |
until:2026-06-30 |
Captured up to and including that day |
before:2026-06-30 |
Captured before that day |
Dates are YYYY-MM-DD. A token that doesn’t parse as a filter is searched as
ordinary text. Malformed queries never error — stray quotes, AND, *, and emoji
just search literally.
From the terminal
cap search takes the same query syntax, plus explicit flags that win over inline
tokens:
cap search swift concurrency --site swift.org --since 2026-01-01 --until 2026-06-30
cap search rust --limit 10 --jsonResults come back as plain text, --format tsv, or --json — see the
CLI reference for the exact field set.