🔍 NotaeSearch

NotaeSearchis more than a search bar. It's a research engine built into every Study Room. When you search from inside a room — say, the Bird Watching Group — your searches are automatically attributed to that room. Other members can see what you searched, what you saved, and build on your research.

There are two surfaces for search on NotaeLibrary:

NotaeSearch has three tabs — every tab is available to every user. Nothing is greyed out. You pay credits per search, not per tab.

The Web tab is the default. It gives you traditional search results — titles, snippets, favicons, and domain names. Type your query and press Enter. Results appear instantly.

Each result card shows:

• Page title (clickable link)
• Domain name with favicon
• Snippet preview of the page content
• Thumbnail image when available
• Save to Room button (permission-gated — see below)

The Research tabsearches academic papers, financial filings, medical studies, and government databases — all from one query. It's designed for serious research where a simple link list isn't enough.

Sources searched (depending on depth):

Source Depth Slider:

The AI Ask tab turns your question into a written, AI-synthesised answer with inline citations. Each citation is a clickable link to the source. Think of it as having a research assistant who reads dozens of sources and writes you a summary on the spot.

Every tab supports filters to narrow your results. Available filters:

• Date range — from/to dates (YYYY-MM-DD)
• Source types — academic, financial, medical, web
• Relevance threshold — 0.0 to 1.0 slider
• Country code — bias results toward a region
• Excluded sources — block specific domains
• Natural language instructions— describe how results should be ranked (e.g. "prioritise peer-reviewed papers from the last 2 years")

The Research tab adds a Source Depth slider — Basic, Standard, or Deep. Deeper searches cost more credits but search more databases.

This is what makes NotaeSearch different from any other search engine. When you save a result, it doesn't just go into a personal bookmark folder — it becomes part of the room's knowledge infrastructure.

When an owner or moderator saves a result:

Not everyone can save results to the room corpus. The permission model is:

Members(the lowest role) can still search and use all three tabs. Their searches are recorded in their personal history. They can bookmark results for themselves. But the "Save to Room" button is disabled for them with the message: "Contributor access required to save research to this room."

Every search you run in a room is recorded. The room's search history is visible to all members — it's a shared research corpus that shows what the group has been investigating.

NotaeSearch uses the platform's unified credit system. Every search costs credits — the amount depends on which tab and depth you use. Credits are shared across all AI features (chat, editing, image generation, search, Sage agents).

All tabs are available to all users — free and paid. No greyed-out tabs, no feature gates. Free users get a small monthly credit pool (10 credits). Subscribers get larger pools (100–500/month depending on tier). Top-ups are always available.

Sage — the platform's AI assistant — can use NotaeSearch on your behalf. Three Sage skills expose search:

When you use a Sage search skill with Room Only checked, the search is automatically attributed to that room — same as if you'd run it from the NotaeSearch page. Results can be saved by contributors and above.