The search page

Your notes on the web, behind your account address and two-factor code: search, read, write, edit and delete, in the order you gave them in the app.

Every notes index has a page on the web, https://search.opensolr.com/<index>, where you search, read, write and edit your notes from any browser. Open the search page in Settings takes you there.

01 · Who gets in
  • The page asks for the address of your Opensolr account and its two-factor code: from your authenticator app, or a recovery code. When the account keeps a phone number for its code, a Send by SMS button appears once the address is filled in, and the code that arrives goes in the same field. It is the same sign-in as Opensolr Photos on the web.
  • Without two-factor authentication on the account, the page does not open. Turn it on at Account → Two-factor authentication.
  • A signed-in session lasts 12 hours. Sign out, on the page, ends it at once.
  • The index password is optional. To add it as an extra step, turn on the password of the search page in the Opensolr control panel, on the index, under Security (Index password and security in Settings opens it). Once it is on, the browser also asks for the user and password of the index, after the two-factor code, here and on notes.opensolr.com.
  • The same notes open at notes.opensolr.com, which asks for the same account address and code without the index name in the address. See Notes on the web.
02 · Reading and writing
  • Search works as in the app: words and meaning, the filters, the matching passage highlighted.
  • A result opens the note in a dialog. Edit turns it into the editor: title, text with B, I, U and links, then Save (or Cmd+S / Ctrl+S) or Cancel, and Delete note, on one row at the top and at the bottom. A double click on the note opens the editor too.
  • Paste from a web page and the part you copied stays as it looked: headings, lists, tables, links, pictures and colours.
  • New note writes a note from the browser. It reaches the phone at the next sync.
  • Checklists and find in the note, as in the app: see Checklists and Find in a note.
  • Export a note, or Export selected for the notes you tick, as PDF, Word, HTML or text: see Sharing a note as a file.
  • Share link on an open note, and Links at the top of the page for all of them: see Sharing a note with a link.
03 · The order of your notes

With no search typed, the page lists your notes in the order you gave them in the app, by dragging the grip in the list. A new note comes in at the top. The order is set in the app only.

04 · Deleting several notes
  • Every note on the page has a checkbox, in the results of a search and in the list with no search typed.
  • Tick the notes you want gone. A Delete selected button appears next to New note, with the number of notes picked.
  • The page asks once; confirm and the notes are removed from your index, and from your phones at their next sync. This cannot be undone.
  • Only the owner of the index, signed in to opensolr.com, can delete notes this way.
05 · Asking

The Ask this site button on the page is the chat with your notes. See Asking your notes.

Your notes index

Opensolr Notes is open source and MIT licensed. Questions about your Opensolr account, index or plan go to opensolr.com/contact; questions about the app itself belong on GitHub.

Opensolr Notes Documentation