Search

Press ⌘ K (or Ctrl K on Windows/Linux) from anywhere to open the global search. Type any words from a subject, body, sender, or attachment: Speudio matches the words you type, including close spellings, and ranks the most relevant hits.

How it ranks

Speudio matches whole words and close spellings, so a small typo still finds the email. Fresher emails get a slight boost and marketing subjects are demoted, so the useful hit tends to sit at the top.

Searching by meaning

Asking for something by description rather than by its words, such as "the quote we agreed" finding an email that says "the offer we settled on", is what the assistant does. Ask it in the AI assistant instead, where a question like that is answered against the meaning of your mail. That draws on your plan's AI, which plain search never does.

Words in scanned files and photos of documents

Search also finds words printed in a scanned PDF or in a photo of a document, such as an invoice someone photographed with their phone. Speudio picks the text out of the picture on our own server, so you can search for it like the text of any other file. This is switched on for a few mailboxes at a time. Until yours is on, a scanned file is found by its name only.

Text picked out of a picture can have mistakes, most often in phone photos: a digit or a letter can come out wrong. Handwriting is often picked up wrongly or not at all. When a number matters, such as an amount, an account number or a payment reference, check it in the original file, which is always the one to trust.

Previewing results

Results are grouped per contact, each group tinted with the contact's own color so you can see at a glance where one person's results end and the next begin, and photo results show a small thumbnail right in the list. Click a PDF or image result and it opens in a lightbox on top of the search palette; the palette stays open so you can keep scanning. Click an email result and you jump straight to that exact message in the contact's chat timeline (the bubble flashes briefly so you can spot where you landed).

Filtering

On the Contacts page, open Filters (the funnel icon next to the search box) to show only important contacts, one tag, or to show or hide forwarding addresses. Every filter that is on appears as a chip under the toolbar, with an X to remove it and Clear all at the end, and the count at the top reads "12 of 248 contacts". The Sort button shows the current order; open it to pick another, flip the direction, switch between sections and tabs, or pin the people you wrote to lately.

The search box beside the Contacts heading filters that same list as you type, and while a query is active the page switches to a distinct results view ("12 results for …") with its own Clear button, so search results are never mistaken for your full grouped list. Press Esc or Clear to go back to browsing. Contact search covers a contact's name, email, company, phone, job title, address, website and notes, plus the values in any custom fields you have added, so people are findable by whatever you have stored about them.

Your filters, the sort order and the collapsed sections come back the next time you open Contacts, so the page arrives the way you left it. Filters are kept per mailbox: switch mailbox and you see that mailbox's own filters. A search does not: it lasts while you are on the page, and a reload gives you the whole list again, so something you typed yesterday can never quietly narrow today's view.

Searching these help articles

On the Documentation page itself, you can search the help articles: start typing in the search box at the top and the matching sections appear instantly, with the matched words highlighted.