What search operators does Harbor support?

Harbor speaks an Evernote-style search grammar. If you learned Evernote’s search, you already know Harbor’s.

• Plain words — boiler manual finds notes containing both words.
• “Quoted phrases” — "grand total" matches the exact phrase.
• Exclusion — -draft leaves out notes containing “draft”.
• tag: — tag:taxes narrows to a tag.
• notebook: — notebook:Receipts narrows to a notebook.
• intitle: — intitle:budget matches only in note titles.
• resource: — narrows to notes carrying a certain kind of attachment.
• Date ranges — find notes by when they were created or updated.
• Wildcards — harb* matches words beginning with “harb”.
• Website addresses — portlandcolocation.com finds notes you clipped from that site.

Operators combine naturally. A realistic example:

notebook:Receipts tag:2025 -returned "store credit"

…finds 2025 receipts mentioning “store credit,” skipping anything marked returned.

A few things that make the grammar go further:

• Search reaches inside attachments. Words in PDFs, photos, and scans count as matches, thanks to OCR.
• Search knows where a clip came from. Search a site’s bare address — just portlandcolocation.com — and the notes you clipped from that site come to the top: below a title match, ahead of notes that only mention the site in passing. Longer forms like www.portlandcolocation.com or the full address still find those notes, they just don’t lift them to the top; https:// in front of a bare address can come up empty.
• Saved searches keep a query you use often one click away — and you can pin one to the sidebar as a shortcut.
• The command palette (⌘K) gets you to search without touching the mouse.
• It all works offline. Your device runs the same search against its local copy, even with no connection.

The only content search never sees: encrypted notes, by design.