Search feature

[[Search]]¶

• Knotis search is a concept-aware search that replaces [[Zensical]]’s default search.
  • It understands [[wikilink|wikilinks]] and plain words.
  • It renders all the content items, Markdown tables, images, Mermaid diagrams, admonitions, code blocks, and videos.
• Click on the Search bar in the header, or use the keyboard shortcut:
  •   Ctrl+K
  •   Cmd+K

[[Search order]]¶

1. Wikilink-first ranking.
   1. Wikilink concepts outrank non-wikilink concepts.
2. The matching [[reference]] wikilinks.
   1. No duplicate results.
3. Content-tags.
   1. Searching frequency table #output finds #output sections about the frequency table.
4. Ordinary text that mentions the words without using a wikilink.

[[Search view]]¶

• 
  1. User clicks on the Search bar in the header, or use the keyboard shortcut.
     1. Types the keyword/concept, such as nonsignificant correlation to see every module that mentions it, or narrow down with correlation code to find only code sections.
  2. The search cards show the module name.
  3. Clicking on [[page tags]] narrows the search.
  4. Right below each search card, there are clickable "RELATED" concepts, and
  5. How many times the searched keyword/concept is mentioned in the same page.
     1. Clicking that number expands the results within that page.
  6. Clicking on a search card to jump directly to that part on the page.

Search #settings¶

• Search is customized in [[zensical.toml]] file.

  • [project.extra.knotis.search]
    enabled = true
    exclude_paths = []
    exclude_wikilinks = []
    order = []
    

    • Line 2: Default is true. false turns the search feature off.
    • Line 3: Sections or pages to remove from the site graph.
    • Line 4: Wikilinks to remove from the site graph.
    • Line 5: sections or pages are ordered.
      • Example: order = ["features", "workflows", "what-is-knotis.md"] → features pages, then workflows, then that page, then the rest.