> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.perisclaw.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.perisclaw.com/what-perisclaw-can-do/search-across-everything.md).

# Search across everything

What you need is almost always somewhere in your chats or your apps — finding it is the hard part. WhatsApp search only matches exact words, one chat at a time, and everything beyond your messages sits in tools that don't talk to each other. With Perisclaw, you ask for what you're looking for the way you'd describe it to a person, and it finds it.

## What you can search

* **By description, not keywords.** *"The link Maya sent last week"* or *"what we decided on the budget"* is enough — even when the exact wording in the chat was different.
* **Across all your chats at once** — including the links, documents, and images inside them, not just the text.
* **Across your connected tools too** — from email and calendar to Sheets, Notion, Slack, and anything else you link through a [connected app](/skills-and-integrations/connecting-apps.md).
* **Down to the specific detail** buried in months of chatter — a date, an amount, an address, a document link.

![Perisclaw answering a search: "Found 3 mentions of 'budget' in your chat with +91 98765 43210" followed by three quoted lines with dates, and an offer to quote the original or draft a reply.](/files/4JIHTG4HhnxpZZ8Es3uy)

## It reasons over what it finds

Perisclaw doesn't just locate messages — it answers questions about them. Ask for the best quote anyone offered, the latest price discussed, or when a commitment was made, and it works it out from what's in your chats.

And it always returns results **with their context** — the message quoted back alongside the conversation around it, so you see who said it and why, not just the line on its own.

## Things to ask

* *"Find the link Sarah sent about the office space last month."*
* *"What was Rahul's feedback on the Q4 deck?"*
* *"What's the latest price we discussed with the vendor?"*

{% hint style="info" %}
Need something current that isn't in your chats — a fact, a price, the contents of a link someone sent? Perisclaw can look it up on the web and summarize it for you. Just ask, e.g. *"open this link and tell me what it says"* or *"what's the latest on this?"*
{% endhint %}

Search pairs naturally with [relationship memory](/what-perisclaw-can-do/relationship-memory.md) and your [personal wiki](/skills-and-integrations/personal-wiki.md) — the more Perisclaw knows about your world, the sharper its answers get.


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