The Spotlight

One overlay, four tabs: All, Snippets, Clips and Notes, each with its own shortcut. The All tab has a default shortcut; the browser's extension shortcuts page lets you set one for each of the other three.

• Type to search by title, abbreviation or body. Every box takes the search operators.
• Enter inserts the selected result into the field you came from.
• Esc dismisses, and so does a click on the page beside the panel.
• The pill above the panel switches tabs; the app mark beside it opens TypeFire in its own tab. Drag the mark and the panel moves with it, so a form or a list can be pulled off whatever it is covering.

The All tab

Spotlight has four tabs now, and All is the first of them. The Spotlight shortcut lands straight on it.

One search box, every surface. Snippets, clips and notes come back in a single list ordered by how well each one matches what you typed, not by what kind of thing it is: the best answer wins whether it is a snippet you fire daily or a screenshot from last month.

• A title match beats a match buried in a body, and an exact abbreviation goes straight to the top, because typing one means you already know what you want.
• Something you touched today gets a small nudge, and a snippet you use constantly gets another. Both are capped, so neither can lift a weak match over a strong one.
• Text inside your screenshots is searched, so an image is findable by what it says.

The list is on the left and a preview on the right. Select any result and read it properly before you commit to it, and select text in that preview to copy straight out of Spotlight.

Key	Snippet	Clip	Note
Enter	Insert it	Paste it	Open it in TypeFire
⌘Enter	Open in TypeFire	Open the file or link	Insert it

The hint at the bottom of the window changes with whatever is selected, so the key always tells you what it will do before you press it.

Click a screenshot in the preview to open that clip in the app tab with its full detail panel.

Places are results too. Type the name of a vault or of a collection and it comes back beside the snippets, clips and notes. A vault's preview shows its path, how many notes it holds, its collections and tags, when it last changed and its five most recent notes; Enter switches Notes to that vault. A collection's preview shows how many snippets or notes it holds, here and with its sub-collections, the sub-collections by name, and its five most recent items; Enter opens that world with the collection selected. They never appear in the recent list, only when searched for. type:vault, type:collection, type:collection/snippets and type:collection/notes narrow to them.

Prefer to see everything at once? The toggle in the bottom right switches to a grid, which is worth it the moment your search turns up images.

Your search follows you between tabs

Type something in one tab, click another, and the search comes with you. The type tabs are how you narrow: search in All, then jump to Notes to see only the notes, without typing a thing twice.

Summoning a tab with its own hotkey always starts fresh. Switching continues what you were doing; a hotkey begins something new.