The Search Panel

The search panel is the fastest way to get anywhere in liveplanner. It is one box that searches across everything you can reach and, when you are in a plan, runs commands too. The scope adapts to where you are, so the same panel finds a plan from the Explorer and a tab inside the plan you have open.

Opening and closing search

Keyboard: press Cmd / Ctrl + K, or Cmd / Ctrl + .. Both open the same panel. (K is the usual command-palette shortcut; . is the original binding, kept because browsers reserve Cmd + T for a new browser tab.) They work in the editor and on the Explorer page alike, including in zen mode and in view-only plans. While you are typing in a text box (such as the Explorer's filter box) they are left to that box, and they are off when you turn off keyboard shortcuts in Settings.
Button: click Search near the right-hand end of the bottom bar, just before Settings. In the editor it sits to the right of the tabs; on the Explorer page it is the magnifier in the bottom bar. On a phone, and with Minimal Chrome on, the button is the magnifier alone.
Explorer panel menu: inside the editor, the Explorer panel's ⋯ menu also has a Search row.

The panel pops up near the top of the screen and blurs what is behind it so you can focus on the query. Press Esc, click the Esc chip at the end of the search box, or click outside the panel to close it.

What search covers

Type a few letters and matches appear, grouped by what they are. Matching is a simple, case-insensitive "contains" match on the name, so plan finds "Sprint plan" and "Planning". What is in scope depends on where you open it:

Always: your plans.
When signed in: your teams.
Inside a plan: also the current plan's tabs, boards and cards: a card by its number (12 or #12) or the words of its title.

With an empty box, the panel lists what it can browse (your plans, teams and, in the editor, the plan's tabs), so you can open it and arrow straight to something. Most groups show at most 8 results (10 for Actions, 6 for Settings and Help; Teams shows up to 8 each of teams, team folders and team plans), so keep typing to narrow a long list.

The results come in this order: Plans, Teams, Tabs, Boards, Cards, then Actions, Settings and Help.

In the editor the panel does more than jump around:

Create a new tab: an action result that adds a fresh tab and opens Start Planning on it.
Run a command: type an action's name (undo, rename, export, settings) and run it. The panel doubles as a command palette on ⌘K.

These only appear once you have typed something, and only inside a plan. Two more groups work everywhere, in the editor and on the Explorer page:

Jump to a setting: a Settings group matches the rows of the Settings dialog, by name and by the words people use for them, so "dark mode" finds Theme. Each result says which category it lives in ("in Appearance"), and picking it opens Settings on that row with the row highlighted.
Find the help for it: a Help group lists matching articles from this help centre, so the explanation of a feature is reachable from the same box as the feature. Articles match on their search synonyms too, so "kanban" finds Boards. Picking one opens the article in a new browser tab, so you do not lose your place.

A Settings result names the category it opens on, with matching help articles listed last.

The Help group always sits last, so a help article never steals the Enter from somewhere you were trying to go.

Picking a result

Results are ordered by group, and the very first match is preselected, so for the common case you can just type and press Enter. Otherwise click a row, or press the ↑ and ↓ arrow keys to move the highlight and Enter to pick it. Picking a result takes you exactly where it points: opening a plan or folder, switching to a tab, or jumping to a team. The panel closes as it goes.

Read-only views

Search only navigates, so it works in a view-only plan too: you can still find and jump to tabs. The command palette keeps only the actions that do not change the plan. See The Command Palette.

A plan with lots of tabs? Press ⌘K, type part of a tab's name and press Enter to switch to it, quicker than scanning the tab bar.

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