# Feature request: Search
**URL:** https://forum.xod.io/t/feature-request-search/1085
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 2, 2018, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/feature-request-search/1085 "2018-09-02T05:59:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@i3laze](https://forum.xod.io/u/i3laze)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2018, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/feature-request-search/1085/1 "2018-09-02T05:59:23Z")
Although v0.17 release stated some “quick search suggester” I desperately require in-app search.
Neither **XOD Documentation** website, nor **Project Browser** tab are capable of full-text search (including patch descriptions) for a specific keyword.
Currently, I have to use Forum search for trivial things, which are possibly stated _somewhere_ in Documentation.
For me as a newbie (with English not native) it is pain in the ass to find _if_ a specific core patch exists,
like is there a patch that “summs” values and produce “average”, or should I mess with Add+Buffer+Count instead.
P.S. Forum solution for “average”: [[Need help on averaging numbers for a project](https://forum.xod.io/t/need-help-on-averaging-numbers-for-a-project/326/2)]
P.P.S. Just found out (by accident), that double-click brings up “_Search nodes_”.
I guess, such hint was somewhere at the begging of the tutorials.
Double-click is pretty convenient, but absolutely **not intuitive** - some background label is required.
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### Author:  [@nkrkv](https://forum.xod.io/u/nkrkv)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/feature-request-search/1085/2 "2018-09-03T11:42:34Z")
Hello! Thanks for the feedback. The double-click is indeed [described in the tutorial](https://xod.io/docs/tutorial/06-adding-nodes/). It’s also in [Mouse and Keyboard Shortcuts](https://xod.io/docs/reference/shortcuts/) available through the Help menu in IDE. And it is on View → Add Node. Nevertheless, I see it is not always enough. How can we improve the situation?
What would be intuitive for you? 🤔 Maybe, a magnifier-glass icon in the project browser pane?
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### Author:  [@i3laze](https://forum.xod.io/u/i3laze)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/feature-request-search/1085/3 "2018-09-03T13:30:46Z")
Tutorial has 28 chapters with things more interesting than how to invoke in-app Search.
Documentation section on the website could have helped me find relevant Patches if only it had own Search form.
I can’t confirm MacOS XOD has “View-\>Add node” menu item 😕
It could be as third icon here. It might have an _onmouseover_ hint about “invoking by double-click”
and right-click ability to dock icon to left/right:
Search pane should’t have a separate tab - I still love the way the search results use fullscreen.
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### Author:  [@drahkan](https://forum.xod.io/u/drahkan)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/feature-request-search/1085/4 "2018-09-13T21:06:52Z")
Wow, yeah…I have been trying to figure out how to search nodes myself, and finally just gave up as I don’t recall the “double click” thing from the tutorials. It’s convenient, yeah, but like 99.9% other programs/apps out there, there really should be a “magnifying glass button with text field to the left” at the top of the IDE that lets you search.
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### Author:  [@gweimer](https://forum.xod.io/u/gweimer)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/feature-request-search/1085/5 "2018-09-13T23:05:34Z")
The down-side of a separate search button is that it provides no indication where the new node should be added to the workspace…
I guess they could add a search button that just told you how to do the search…