dossier’s search isn’t a filename filter — it indexes the full extracted text of every document, plus the AI summary, your notes, and the filename itself.
Searching
Type into the search field above the file list. Matches show a highlighted snippet of where in the document the phrase was found — useful when the filename alone wouldn’t tell you.
Narrowing down
Open the extended search filters to combine:
- Type — PDF, image, text, other
- Status — inbox, filed, needs review, …
- Tags — any tag from your convention
- Language — appears automatically when a project contains more than one
- Only OCR’d files — documents that got their text via OCR
Filters you leave empty don’t limit anything.
Keep a search
Any search can be saved as a smart clip — it appears in the Clips sidebar, keeps itself up to date, and shows a live badge count. “All insurance letters from 2025” becomes a one-click view. See paperclips.
Indexed an archive before OCR-ing it, or migrating from an older version? Settings → Re-index All Documents rebuilds the full-text index in one go.