Searching Your Library

The examples below reflect the search behavior implemented in current private development builds.

Start with the smallest useful clue: a few words, a quoted phrase, a tag, or a file type. Memni combines full-text matches with on-device meaning-based results and ranks them together.

Useful first searches

water damage deductible
"contract renewal"
tag:insurance type:pdf

A space between ordinary terms means AND, so water damage asks for results containing both terms. Meaning-based matches can still bring up related passages that use different wording.

Text matching

• "water damage" — exact phrase
• damag* — word prefix
• jewlry~ — approximate spelling
• water AND (damage OR deductible) NOT draft — Boolean expression
• termination NEAR/10 notice — words within a ten-term window

Filters

Limit a term or value to a document field:

• title:, body:, and metadata:
• tag:, group:, type:, and source:
• path: and file:

Examples:

title:"annual report" type:pdf
tag:client renewal
metadata:matter=case-alpha

Dates and custom metadata

• created:2026-05-09 and modified:2026-05-11 match a calendar day.
• metadata:policyclaim searches text across custom metadata.
• metadata:matter=case-alpha matches an exact metadata key and value.

Advanced matching

Memni also supports case-sensitive terms such as case:NASA and regular expressions such as regex:"INV-[0-9]{4}". Regular expressions run against a bounded candidate set to keep searches responsive.