Finding things

DunneWrite has two ways to find things, and they answer different questions.

Search#

Search, near the top of the left-hand menu, is the fastest way to find anything in your story, including text inside your own prose. It looks for whole words and understands that related forms belong together: searching for houses also finds house.

Filter boxes above lists#

Anywhere the app shows a list of more than a couple of dozen things, a small box sits above it. Type a few letters and the list narrows; press ✕ at the right of the box to clear it.

A line under the box always says what happened, for example 12 of 155 places · 143 hidden by this search, so rows are never hidden without telling you.

These boxes match letters, not words. Typing malaqu finds Château Malaquis, because it looks for those letters anywhere in the entry. So a fragment that works in a filter box may find nothing in Search, and a real word may do more in Search. If you have a partial name, use the box beside the list; if you have a whole word, use Search.

Filter boxes above drop-downs#

Some filter boxes sit above a drop-down rather than a visible list: for example the Connect to… box on a place on the Globe, and the Present at this scene picker on the timeline. A drop-down keeps its contents hidden until you open it, so when you type into its box:

• Nothing visible happens except the line underneath, which tells you how many entries matched.
• The filtering has already happened. Open the drop-down and it holds only the matches.

The trick is: type first, then open the list.

Related#

• Reference tools
• Maps and the timeline