Searching chat history

Ekorbia indexes every message you’ve ever sent or received with full-text search. The search box at the top of the History sidebar is the way in.

How it works

Start typing in the sidebar search box. After about 150 ms of idle time, Ekorbia searches across every message ever saved — both user and assistant — and shows ranked results below the title matches in a Messages section.

Each result row shows:

• The parent chat’s title
• A three-line snippet of the matching message with the matched words highlighted
• A relevance ranking (best matches first, using BM25 scoring)

Clicking a result opens the parent chat with the same query terms highlighted in every message, so you can scan around the hit for context.

Search syntax

The search is forgiving and tuned for natural typing:

• Multi-word queries AND together — code review finds messages containing both words
• Prefix matching is automatic — interrog matches “interrogation,” “interrogating,” etc.
• Punctuation is ignored — it's searches the same as its
• Case-insensitive — Bug and bug are equivalent

You don’t need to learn any operators — type what you remember about the message and the relevant chats float to the top.

Searching titles only

If you just want to find a chat by name (not by message body), the title-match results appear above the Messages section. Type a few characters of the title and the relevant chat appears at the top.

When search results seem stale

In rare cases (e.g. after restoring from a backup, or after a database migration), the search index can drift out of sync with the messages. Ekorbia keeps the index in sync automatically via database triggers, but if you ever suspect it’s stale:

• Close and reopen the app — the index is verified at startup
• If results still look wrong, file an issue

Related pages

• Edit and retry messages — both keep the search index consistent
• The chat window