Search & Navigation

Find anything in your project instantly.

Global search

Press ⌘K anywhere in Braidr to open the global search. This is the fastest way to navigate your project.

Start typing and Braidr searches across:

• Scenes — titles, descriptions, and drafted text.
• Notes — titles and content from your knowledge base.
• Characters — POV character names.
• Tags — tag names across all categories.
• Drafts — text content of all draft versions.

Search results

Results are grouped by type (Scenes, Notes, Characters, Tags) with the most relevant matches at the top. Each result shows:

• The item title and a preview snippet with your search term highlighted.
• The source (which character or folder it belongs to).
• A keyboard-friendly list you can navigate with ↑ / ↓ arrows.

Press Enter to open the selected result. Scenes open in the Editor, notes open in the Notes view, characters switch to their POV, and tags activate a filter.

Quick navigation

Besides global search, Braidr offers several ways to navigate quickly:

• Scene navigator (Editor) — the left panel lists all scenes in reading order. Click to jump to any scene.
• Sections sidebar (POV View) — click a section name to scroll to it.
• Character dropdown (POV View) — switch between characters.
• Wikilinks (Notes) — click [[links]] to jump between notes.
• Backlinks (Notes) — see and navigate to all notes that reference the current note.

Undo and redo

Braidr maintains a 50-level undo history for all editing operations:

• ⌘Z — undo the last action.
• ⌘ShiftZ — redo the last undone action.

Undo works in the Editor (text changes), POV View (scene moves, edits), and Braided View (position changes). Each context maintains its own undo stack.

Keyboard shortcuts for navigation