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#### 10.3.5 Search view

This agenda view is a general text search facility for Org-mode entries. It is particularly useful to find notes.

`C-c a s (``org-search-view``)`
  This is a special search that lets you select entries by matching a substring or specific words using a boolean logic.

For example, the search string ‘`computer equipment`’ will find entries that contain ‘`computer equipment`’ as a substring. If the two words are separated by more space or a line break, the search will still match. Search view can also search for specific keywords in the entry, using Boolean logic. The search string ‘`+computer +wifi -ethernet -{8\.11[bg]}`’ will search for note entries that contain the keywords `computer` and `wifi`, but not the keyword `ethernet`, and which are also not matched by the regular expression `8\.11[bg]`, meaning to exclude both 8.11b and 8.11g. The first ‘`+`’ is necessary to turn on word search, other ‘`+`’ characters are optional. For more details, see the docstring of the command `org-search-view`.

Note that in addition to the agenda files, this command will also search the files listed in `org-agenda-text-search-extra-files`.