Can you please add a search bar for long lists (checked or unchecked)?

July is a delayed response…. sorry, but the search function is truly something wanted, needed in old “Clear” and still needed today! “A later release” would mean Uncle release without it.

I get why a search function is a popular request. And I’m not necessarily against it. I have a good number of lists in Clear and I feel like if I ever need to search across all of my lists, then at that point I might be using Clear more like a database than a task manager.

I just don’t have an elegant ‘native to Clear’s visual aesthetics’ UI in mind yet for the searching, but it feels like it could be a gesture action to trigger it, which solves one side of this. (A way for people who want this feature to use it without it distracting others from the simple zen side o…

Can you have Siri trigger the search? “Hey Siri, search Clear please” and it brings up the iOS keyboard with search integrated as you suggested?

Hmm possibly though we haven’t looked into Siri integration. But I would not feel OK if Siri was the only way. (I have mixed feelings about how well Siri works in my life :sweat_smile:)

Spotlight search would be very helpful, feels like it would a great way to balance the needs of folks who want search and the minimalist ethos that we love about Clear

iOS spotlight search would be better than nothing - count this as a vote for that at minimum

I’d also like a search function. I agree a search bar / search UX doesn’t completely fit the Clear aesthetic. Came here to suggest the same thing as Lefty above - could you make Clear indexed by iOS Spotlight? I believe Apple makes this quite easy Core Spotlight | Apple Developer Documentation I…

Some people have mentioned searching within a list but my issue is not remembering which list I put something in so that wouldn’t really help me Spotlight search would be a big help

I’m quite interested in Spotlight search support for those reasons. We will look into this…

Search bar for long lists

New Clear

phillryu December 16, 2024, 3:50pm 31

Sanity checked, still broken in latest iOS but we found a workaround. Spotlight search integration is now in Clear! Clear 2.3 (Spotlight search, initial hotkeys, fixes)

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