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Press Cmd-u / Ctrl-u (or click the search bar) to find or create pages and blocks.
Before you type anything, it shows your recent items.
Results show reference counts and the path to each block, with your search terms highlighted.
Enter opens a result, and Shift-Enter opens it in the right sidebar. If nothing matches your exact text, the top row offers New page: to create it.
For filters, a preview pane, and semantic search, continue into Advanced Search: the button at the right edge of the search bar, or Ctrl-o straight from the dropdown.

Type [[ to search page titles and create Page References. Exact title matches sort first.
Type # to search and create #Tags.
Type (( to search blocks and create Block References. It also matches a block's UID, so you can paste one in directly.
Type :: to search and create Attributes.
In any of these, Ctrl-o opens a preview of the selected result before you commit to it.

Advanced Search: the full search view, with a results list, preview pane, and filters.
Global search: (Cmd-Shift-u / Ctrl-Shift-u): search across all of your graphs at once.
All Pages: a sortable list of every page in your graph. Sort by title, word count, mentions, or when pages were created or last edited.
Better search (Experimental): the new search engine. Faster on large graphs, and block references become searchable.
Semantic search: meaning-based search, once embeddings are enabled for your graph.
Advanced Block Reference Search: (Ctrl-Shift-9): find a block by drilling down through its outline, level by level, and drop a reference to it where you're writing.

Search ignores accents: "café" and "cafe" find each other.
You can hide code blocks from search results, as well as change other search settings, in Settings → Preferences → Search.