Search everything

Search is the escape hatch for everything you did not give a tab to, and a fast way into your libraries.

Opening it

• iPhone: the magnifying glass in the Home top row, a short pull down on any root tab (“Release to search”), the Search everything quick action, or the Search Homelab shortcut in Siri and the Shortcuts app.
• Mac: ⌘K, the toolbar capsule, Actions → Search Everything…, or the menu bar magnifier.

With an empty query

Two sections: Quick actions as horizontal chips, then Screens as a three-column grid of every screen your configured services provide. This is how you reach a screen whose tab you turned off.

With a query

Sections appear in a fixed order as they find something:

Jellyfin · Screens · Actions · Alerts · Repositories · Tasks · Contacts · Deck cards · Notes · Documents · Nextcloud files · Money · Ebooks · Music · Audiobooks · Podcasts · Vehicles · Photos · Indexers · Web

The matched part of a title is drawn in bold. Pressing Go opens the first ranked result.

Section	Source	Notes
Jellyfin	Live library search	Poster strip; needs an API key
Screens / Actions	Local index	Ranked by title prefix, then word prefix, then substring, then keywords
Alerts	Cached ntfy messages	In memory, no request
Repositories	Cached Forgejo overview	In memory, no request
Tasks	Local task store (3+ characters)	Offers Add task “…” with parsed due date, p1, #List and @label
Contacts	Nextcloud Contacts	Up to four address books, fetched once per search, then filtered on the device
Deck cards	Nextcloud Deck	Open cards on up to eight boards, with the board and list they sit in
Notes	Nextcloud Notes (2+ characters)	Notes whose title, text or folder match, inside your notes root folder, with a line of the text; a hit opens the note
Documents	Paperless full-text	Plus Search document text for “…”
Nextcloud files	WebDAV name search	Plus Search documents and OCR for “…”
Money	Firefly III search (3+ characters)	Search transactions for “…”, then matching transactions and up to two accounts
Ebooks	Calibre-Web	Title, author, series, tag
Music	Navidrome	Artists and albums, plus Request “…” in Lidarr and Search Soulseek
Audiobooks	Audiobookshelf	Books, podcasts, series and authors
Podcasts	Your PinePods library and this device’s feeds	Shows, episodes newest first, and podcast notes; a note opens its episode
Vehicles	LubeLogger	Up to four vehicles by name or plate, and their records
Photos	Immich smart search (3+ characters)	Search photos for “…”, then up to eight photos; describe what is in the picture, such as “beach at sunset”
Indexers	Prowlarr (3+ characters)	A single row that runs the search on the Indexers screen
Web	SearXNG	Top five results, plus Search the web for “…”

Firefly III and Immich are asked for one small page of results. Contacts, Deck and LubeLogger have no search of their own, so what they list is fetched once per search session (bounded as above) and every keystroke after that is filtered in memory. The podcast section makes no request at all unless the PinePods library was never loaded on this device.

Live sources are debounced (200–600 ms; Immich waits longest, because the server works on the text for every request) and capped at a handful of rows each, so the sheet stays responsive while your slower services catch up. A section that errors shows the error inline in orange, or simply stays out, and the rest keep working.

On the Mac

⌘K opens a 700-point overlay instead of a sheet, with the field placeholder “Search services, actions, media, files…”. ↑ and ↓ move the selection, Return opens it and Esc closes. An empty query lists quick actions with their shortcut glyphs, then screens and settings, then Service websites: one Open … row per configured URL, which is how a URL-only service stays reachable.

The Mac overlay does not have the Contacts, Deck cards, Notes, Money, Podcasts, Vehicles and Photos sections yet.