Search

Nametag’s global search lets you jump to any contact from anywhere in the app, without clicking through menus.

Opening search

Press Cmd+K on Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux to open the search bar. It works from any page: your dashboard, a person’s detail page, settings, wherever you happen to be.

How it works

Search runs entirely in your browser. When you sign in, Nametag builds a search index from all your contacts using MiniSearch, a lightweight full-text search library, and caches it client-side. That means results appear instantly as you type, with no round trip to the server for every keystroke.

The index rebuilds automatically whenever you add, edit, or delete a contact, so it always reflects your current data.

Fuzzy matching

Search tolerates typos and partial matches. Typing “jhon” will still surface “John”, and a partial name like “sam” will match “Samantha” or “Samuel”. You don’t need to spell a name exactly right to find who you’re looking for.

Reading the results

Each result shows:

• The person’s name
• Their photo, or their initials if no photo is set
• The groups they belong to

Click any result to go straight to that person’s detail page.

Technical details

• Default max results: 20
• Fuzzy tolerance: 0.2
• Combine mode: AND (all search words must match)
• Prefix matching: enabled, so results appear as you type
• Indexed fields: name, surname, middle name, second last name, nickname, display name override, organization, job title, notes, phones, emails, addresses, URLs, IM handles, groups, custom fields