Search
One search box for everything you keep in ResearchOS. Press Cmd-K, type a few letters of a name, and jump straight to the experiment, method, note, sequence, dataset, or supply you meant. It is called BeakerSearch, and it lives on every page.
Opening it
Press Cmd-K (Ctrl-K on Windows and Linux) from any page, or click the slim bar docked at the bottom center of the screen. The bar reads “Search your work...”, or “Ask or search your work...” when BeakerBot AI is available to you. Either way the same centered palette opens, and search itself is always free and runs entirely on your own machine.
Before you type anything, the palette shows a row of “Go to” buttons for the main places in the app and your last few opened records, so getting back to what you were just working on is one keystroke and one Enter.
What it searches
Results come back grouped by kind, each under its own heading. The palette covers ten kinds of record, so you never have to remember which tool something lives in.
- Tasks, which includes experiments, purchases, and list tasks.
- Projects and Methods.
- Notes, including pages of handwriting you scanned, which are findable by what they say.
- Sequences and Trees, your saved phylogenetic trees.
- Data Hub tables and analyses, and Molecules.
- Inventory and Purchases.
Matching is forgiving. A few letters in order will find a name, and a near miss or a typo still turns up the record you meant, just below the exact matches. Each kind shows its best few rows, and a quiet Show all button under the group expands that one kind in place when the long tail matters. Use the arrow keys and Enter to open a result without touching the mouse.
Where the old Search page went
ResearchOS used to have a separate Search page with a filter form that found tasks only. It was narrower than the palette, so it was retired, and an old bookmark to it now lands on the Workbench. The palette is the full search. For the filtering the old form offered, the Workbench Experiments list has the controls where you already work. A Find an experiment box narrows by name, the Ongoing and Done tabs split finished work from live work, a rail on the left narrows by project or status, an owner dropdown switches between Everyone, Mine, and Shared with me, and a Method button filters to experiments that use one method. See the Experiments page for the full tour.
Export experiments from the Workbench
The old Search page doubled as the launch pad for bulk exports, and that job moved to the Workbench Experiments list. Click the Select button in the toolbar and each experiment shows a checkbox. Tick one or more (a ring and a check mark show the selection), and the toolbar swaps in a counter (N selected), an Export selected button, and a Cancel button that drops you out of select mode.
Clicking Export selected opens the same Export dialog the experiment popup uses. It offers PDF report, HTML report, and Raw ResearchOS format, plus a Combined PDF option (only when you pick more than one) that merges every selected experiment into one navigable PDF with a cover page, a clickable index, and bookmarks. The dialog heading counts what you picked (for example, Export 3 experiments) with a reminder that multi-experiment exports produce a zip with one file per experiment.
- PDF packages each experiment as its own selectable-text PDF with table of contents and outline pane, then drops every PDF into a single
experiments-<YYYY-MM-DD>.zip. - HTML gives each experiment its own subfolder inside the zip (one self-contained HTML page plus an
attachments/tree), so you can open each report independently without an extra unzip step. - Raw nests one
<name>-raw.zipper experiment inside the outer zip, keeping each bundle ready to drop into another ResearchOS user's Settings → Import experiment dialog.
See Export an experiment on the Experiments page for a deeper walkthrough of what each format bundles and which one to pick.