Zim Search plugin for GNOME

Zimsearch lets you search through your Zim Desktop Wiki pages comfortably from the Activities Overview search box of the GNOME 3 Shell. It acts as a GNOME desktop search provider, and also as a Zim plugin.

Features

• Fast incremental search of existing Zim pages.
• Immediate note creation by typing in a new title.
• Like nvPY or Notational Velocity, but feels like part of GNOME.
• Optionally limit searches to the default notebook only.
• Select notebooks with special search terms.

Screenshots

TBD

Setup

If you have all the dependencies already:

• Run “sudo pip install .” or “pip install --system .”
• Log out and back in again

For detailed instructions, see the Installation Guide.

Using Zimsearch

Search for pages

Search terms typed in the GNOME Shell overview are used to look up Zim pages from your notebooks. To find an existing page, click on Activities in GNOME or press the key that's often decorated with a Windows logo. We'll call it Meta for short. If you have a Zim page called “Recipes for Goulash”, you can search for it by typing…

Meta Recip

You might not need to type it all out. Once it's the only matched item in all of your the search results, you can press Return to open the page in Zim.

Page titles are matched against the search terms and only pages that contain all the terms are shown. By default, all notebooks are searched, but there's a setting in the Zim plugin to limit the search to the default notebook only.

It is also possible to limit the search to a certain notebook by adding a term preceded by a hash sign (#). Only notebooks whose names contain all the # terms are searched.

Meta Pancake batter #Recipes Return

Creating pages

New pages can be created by typing a complete page title, a little like nvPY. When there are no real results, Zimsearch adds some extra "New Page …" results. By default a new page goes into your default notebook, but you can select others with # terms as above.

Development

GitHub: https://github.com/achadwick/zimsearch

See the Contributor Guide if you'd like to help develop Zimsearch, or just get a bug fixed.

Authors

• Andrew Chadwick (current maintainer)
• Davi da Silva Böger (original author)