Feature request: global search

Hello

I have a suggestion for enhancing the application: introducing a global search feature. This functionality would greatly benefit users by allowing them to search within all opened articles simultaneously.

Currently, when I need to find specific information or quotations for my bibliography (but I don't remember which article include selected quote), I have to manually open each article and use Ctrl + F to search within them. It would be much more efficient if we had a global search option, similar to the one found in Visual Studio Code, where I could simply use Ctrl + Shift + F to search across all files in one place.

I believe implementing this feature would greatly improve the user experience.

Thank you for considering my suggestion.
  • If you search on "Everything" in the main Zotero window, that searches full text through all articles. Searching by attachment content is also an option in the advanced search, so you can combine it with other searches.
    I don't think it makes a lot of sense to implement this separately for open files. (ctrl+shift+f in VS Code searches through all files in the currently open folder, so that's approximately the same behavior as Zotero's "Everything" search.

    Search results in text currently don't show with a preview, but that's planned -- no ETA.
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