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⌘K: what it finds and who sees what

You know the thing exists — the supplier, the board Monday’s meeting uses, the rule that says you don’t ship to Israel — but not where it lives. ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows), or Search or jump to… at the top of any page, finds it from anywhere. You don’t have to remember which table, page or document holds it.

The search palette with "ship" typed. Three groups of results: Tables shows "Shipping rates", marked Data product; Dashboards shows "Shipping performance"; Data products shows two rows of the shipping table, Israel and Canada, each followed by the text that matched — "We do not ship to Israel; the carrier refuses…".

  1. Press ⌘K. Before you type, the palette shows Actions (start a new flow, dashboard, contact…), Recent (what you opened last) and Pages.
  2. Type at least two letters. The pages narrow as you type, and results from your own data follow a moment later, in groups.
  3. Move with ↑ and ↓, open with Enter, close with Esc.

Each thing comes back once, however many places know it: a supplier that is a company in Contacts and a card in Memory is one result, opening its real record. Memory explains the marks beside it.

GroupFindsOpens
ContactsPeople, by name, email, phone or employerThe person
CompaniesCompanies, by nameThe company
DealsDeals, by their name, their company’s or anyone’s on themThe deal
CardsThings Memory knows, by name or aliasThe card, or its record in Contacts or Deals
MemoryNotes, facts and summaries on contacts, companies and deals, by their textThe record they are on
MentionedNames Memory noticed in documents that aren’t cards yetThe documents that mention the name
DocumentsDocuments, by file name and by the text read from themThe document
AutomationsFlows, by name (archived ones are left out)The flow
TablesTables, by name or description; a data product says soThe table
DashboardsBoards, by title, with how many tiles each hasThe board
Data productsRows of data products, by the text in their columnsThe row
TagsTags, by name (the # is optional)Everything carrying the tag
ProposalsRequests for proposals, by titleThe request

A group with nothing to show is left out, so the palette only ever lists what matched.

Capitals don’t matter. Accents depend on the group:

  • Contacts, Companies, Cards, Memory, Documents, Automations and Proposals ignore accents, and match the start of a word: novak and nov both find Novák, but vák does not.
  • Tables and Dashboards ignore accents and match any part of the name: ucty finds Účty 2026.
  • Deals, Tags, Mentioned and Data products match any part of the text, and the accents count — the same way a table’s own search box works. Type the word as it is written: Novák, not novak.

A table is found by its name. Only a data product — a table that says what it answers, who owns it and how far to trust each row — is also searched row by row, because its rows are answers meant to be looked up.

Say a customer asks whether you ship to Israel. Your Shipping rates data product has the row. Type israel:

Data products
IsraelShipping rates · High trust
SR-014…we ship everywhere except Israel and Kazakhstan… · Shipping rates · Low trust

Each row is titled the way its own page titles it — by its first text column. When that title doesn’t contain your word, the row first quotes the text around the match, so a row titled by a code still shows why it came back. Then come the table’s name and the row’s trust: High trust, Low trust or Expired, the same levels an agent sees. The palette is narrow, so behind a long quote the table and trust are often cut off; Enter opens the row, whose page shows both, and where you can check or correct it.

To make a table’s rows findable this way, turn it into a data product: Data → Tables → (your table) → Columns → Data product.

The palette never offers a link to a page you couldn’t open, so two people can type the same word and see different groups.

  • Your workspace. An area that isn’t part of your workspace — Memory, Contacts or Dashboards switched off for it, or Deals or Proposals not turned on — has no group.
  • Your access. When an administrator limits what you can open in Settings → Access, search follows the same rules as the pages: without access to Memory there is no Memory, Cards or Mentioned group; without access to Tables, no Tables or Data products; Deals and Proposals likewise. Administrators see every group their workspace has. See Access: who can do what.
  • Each data product, on its own. A row shows only if you may read its table. The rows of a data product you may not read never appear in your results, even when the words match. It is the same per-table rule agents follow — see who can read a data product.
  • Projects. A note or document filed to a project shows only for that project’s members and administrators.