Command Search
One place to find the work
Search now covers the parts of Expensicat people actually jump between all day: inbox items, transactions, invoices, credit notes, quotes, customers, entities, projects, documents, and time entries. Open it with Command-K, type a few letters, and go straight to the record you need.
It also knows where you are. If you're already on invoices, customers, transactions, entities, or another searchable page, Tab applies your search as a page filter instead of making you retype it in a separate field.
When search becomes a question
Not every search is really a search. Sometimes "vercel" means "show me the Vercel invoice"; sometimes it means "what do we spend on Vercel?"
When you want Cat instead of a result, press Command-Enter or choose Ask Cat from the palette. Cat gets the right bit of context — that the message came from search and which area you were searching — while your chat still shows only what you typed.
Fewer dead ends
The palette is tighter now: clearer empty states, better recent items, denser result rows, and shortcuts that behave like shortcuts without getting in the way of normal typing.
- SearchSearch across inbox items, transactions, invoices, credit notes, quotes, customers, entities, projects, documents, and time entries from one command palette.
- SearchFilter the page you're already viewing from the same search box — invoices, customers, transactions, entities, and more.
- AssistantAsk Cat straight from search when the thing you typed is really a question, not an item to open.
- AssistantCat now understands when a question came from search, so short queries like "vercel" get treated with the right context instead of as a cold chat message.
- ShortcutsNew keyboard shortcuts make search faster: Command-K opens the palette, Command-Enter asks Cat, Tab filters the current page, and ? opens the shortcut map.
- SearchEmpty searches now show a clear next step instead of a dead end.
- SearchTyping a question mark in search works normally, so questions like "what did I spend?" can be sent to Cat without fighting the shortcut map.