# Search everything you can see

Find conversations, people, companies, documents and inboxes from ⌘K, or on the Search page with filters for sender, inbox, status and date.

Getting started · Updated October 17, 2026 · https://userookery.com/help/search/

Search finds anything you can see in Rookery: conversations, people, companies, documents and inboxes. Start in `⌘K` (`Ctrl+K` on Windows) to jump straight to one thing, or open the **Search** page to see every result and narrow it down.

## Find something from ⌘K

1. Press `⌘K`, or click **Search or jump** in the sidebar. On your phone, tap the search icon.
2. Type a few words: part of a name, a subject, an invoice number, a company.
3. Results arrive in groups as you type: **Conversations**, **People**, **Companies**, **Documents**, **Inboxes**, **Settings** and places like **Today**. The words that matched are marked.
4. Press `Enter` to open the top row:
   - When one result clearly matches best, it's the **Top hit**, and `Enter` opens it.
   - When nothing stands out, the top row is **All results**, and `Enter` opens the Search page.
   - When you type a question, the top row is **Ask Rookery**. See [Ask Rookery a question](https://userookery.com/help/ask-rookery/).
5. Use `↑` and `↓` to pick another row. `⇧Enter` (`Shift+Enter`) always opens all results.

With nothing typed, `⌘K` shows **Jump back**: the things you opened from search lately, and your **Recent searches**. Press `⌘K` twice to go straight back to the last one.

## Narrow it down on the Search page

The Search page lists every result, best match first, with the line that matched. Under the box are filters:

- **From**: mail from someone, by name or address.
- **Inbox**: one inbox you can see.
- **Assigned**: you, nobody, Rookery, or a teammate.
- **Status**: open, waiting, snoozed or done.
- **Date**: today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days or the last 12 months.
- **Has attachment**: only conversations with a file.

Click a filter to pick a value. Once it's on, it shows what it's set to; click it to change it, or `×` to take it off. **All**, **Conversations**, **People**, **Companies**, **Documents** and **Inboxes** show one kind of result at a time.

Use `j` and `k` to move through the results and `Enter` to open one. Opened from Search, a conversation or a person shows **Search** at the top as the way back.

## Type filters instead

You can type filters into either box, and they become the same filters:

- `from:dana` or `from:acme.example`
- `in:support` (an inbox's name)
- `assignee:me`, `assignee:nobody`, or a teammate's name
- `is:open`, `is:waiting`, `is:snoozed`, `is:done`
- `has:attachment`
- `date:today`, `date:week`, `date:month`, `date:year`
- `type:people`, `type:companies`, `type:documents`, `type:inboxes`, `type:conversations`

A few plain phrases work too: **assigned to me**, **last week**, **this month**, **this year** and **with an attachment**. "from dana" becomes a filter when Dana is someone you write with. If you meant the words themselves, click **Search the words instead**.

## What search looks at

- Mail: the subject, the sender and the whole message. Words match from their start, so "inv" finds "invoice".
- Documents: the file's name and its text.
- People and companies: names and addresses, for people in mail you can see.

## Who can see what

Search shows only what you could open yourself. It searches every team inbox you can see and your own private inbox. A teammate's private inbox, and an inbox you haven't been given, are never searched, and a filter that names one finds nothing. Workspace owners and admins don't see other people's private mail in search either.

Mail in [Trash](https://userookery.com/help/trash/) stays out of search. When nothing matches, the page offers to look in Trash.

What you opened and searched for is remembered on this device only, for 30 days, for **Jump back** and **Recent searches**. It's never sent anywhere, and it's cleared when who can see an inbox changes.