Search

Keyguard’s search finds the item you need in a few keystrokes. The same query language works in the main vault search field and in Quick search — open it from anywhere with Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Space. Results update as you type, ranked so the best match rises to the top.

The basics

Type a word and Keyguard matches it against the most useful fields of every item — title, username, email, website URL and domain, attachment names, and more (see What’s searched below). Matching is:

Case-insensitive — alice and Alice are the same.
Accent-insensitive — jose matches José.
Partial — ali already matches alice; you rarely type a whole word.

Combine terms

Add more words to narrow the results. Every term must match — terms are combined with AND:

github work

finds only items that match both github and work.

Match a phrase

Wrap words in quotes to match them together, in order:

"example team"

Case, accents, and separators are still ignored, so "example team" also matches an item titled Example-Team.

Exclude matches

Start a term with - to drop items that match it. This works for plain words and for qualifiers:

github -personal
domain:example -tag:archive

Search a specific field

Use qualifier:value to look inside one field instead of everywhere. Mix qualifiers with plain words, quote their values, and negate them freely:

username:alice
title:github note:"shared access"

Qualifier reference

Qualifier	Searches in
`title:`, `name:`	Item title
`username:`	Username
`email:`	Email (email-like username, or identity email)
`url:`	Full URL
`domain:`, `host:`	URL host (and passkey domain)
`note:`	Notes
`field:`	Custom field names and values
`attachment:`	Attachment file names
`passkey:`	Passkey domain and name
`ssh:`	SSH key fields
`password:`	Password
`card-number:`	Card number
`card-brand:`	Card brand
`account:`	Account
`folder:`	Folder
`tag:`	Tag
`organization:`	Organization
`collection:`	Collection

An unrecognized qualifier is treated as plain text — type:login simply searches for the words “type:login”.