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Global search

Global search finds pages and blocks across all of your graphs at once, not just the one you have open.
It covers your hosted graphs, plus the graph you're currently in, even if that one is a local graph.

Press Cmd-Shift-u / Ctrl-Shift-u anywhere, or run Global search from the Command Palette.
If you have text selected when you press the hotkey, that text becomes your search.
Start typing to search every graph at once, or pick one graph to search just that one.
Use the arrow keys to move through results. The selected result shows a detail panel with its path, children, backlinks, and edit history.
Esc steps back from a single graph's results to all graphs, and closes the search from there.
Open a result and Roam takes you straight to it in its graph.

Each graph returns its top 100 matches. To go deeper, use Open search results in graph, which continues the same search inside that graph.
Encrypted Graphs are the exception: Roam's servers can't read them, so an encrypted graph is only searched while it's the graph you have open.
A local graph lives only on the device where you created it, so it's likewise only searched while it's the one open.
Searching your other graphs needs an internet connection; the graph you're in is searched right on your device.