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Search and the command palette

Two keystrokes cover everything findable in Wodo.

⌘K: the command palette

⌘K (or Ctrl+K) opens the palette. Empty, it's navigation: jump to any of your spaces, open settings, create a space, switch theme. Start typing and it becomes search over the current space: items, documents, and comments, ranked sensibly (title matches first).

⌘K: type, arrow down, Enter. From anywhere to the item in three keystrokes.

Niceties worth knowing:

  • Type an item's short ID (WDO-123) to jump straight to it.
  • -word excludes a term; "exact phrase" matches exactly.
  • A checkbox includes archived items, because "didn't we solve this last year?" is exactly when you search.

⌘⇧K: the whole organization

⌘⇧K searches across every space you have access to, current project or not, archived or not (with the toggle). Results say which space they came from.

The organization-wide search modal with results from several spaces
One query across the whole organization, including, if you ask, the archives.

This is the institutional-memory key. The supplier issue from two projects ago, the decision document someone wrote in another team's space, the cancelled item with the explanation attached: one query, regardless of where it lives.

Access rules apply as always: search shows you what you could open anyway, and nothing more.