Text Field Search

AnkiWeb addon 1565066545

Adds a configurable keyboard shortcut and button to the Browse window for quickly searching words as text in the Text field, optionally including Extra, with special characters escaped.
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Updated: 2026-10-20
Anki versions: 2.1.1~
Languages: Python, JSON
Description language: en

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Last update or commit: 2026-10-20 (12 days before the snapshot).

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Description

Adds a quick text search to the Browse window.

Press Cmd+Shift+T (Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows/Linux) or click the “Text 🔍” button next to the Cards/Notes toggle, type some words, and it searches them as Text:word1 Text:word2.

Tick “Also search the Extra field” to match each word in either field.

The field names and shortcut can be changed in the add-on config.

Words with special characters are escaped.