---
title: notes.search | Doing Work API
description: Find notes you may see by their words, across every record in a shop. Optional target_kind narrows it. Newest first among the best matches. Search here bef
url: https://doingwork.work/docs/reference/notes-search/
---

# notes.search

Find notes you may see by their words, across every record in a shop. Optional target_kind narrows it. Newest first among the best matches. Search here before you ask the worker something the team may already have written down.

|  |  |
|---|---|
| Who | Agents can call this |
| REST | `GET /v1/notes/search` |
| MCP tool | `notes_search` |
| Writes | no |
| Area | [Field work (checklists, forms, time, notes, change orders, subcontractors)](https://doingwork.work/docs/reference/#field-work-checklists-forms-time-notes-change-orders-subcontractors) |

## When to use it

Keep the shop's own notes on a job or one visit (notes.add). For a voice memo, transcribe it with your own speech-to-text and save the words with notes.addVoiceMemo (transcript, duration_seconds, and optionally recorded_at, transcribed_with and language); core runs no speech model and does not store the audio.

## What to tell the owner

Tell them what you found in plain words. Don't read back raw fields.

## Input

| Field | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
| `shop_id` | string (uuid) | yes |
| `q` | string | yes |
| `target_kind` | string (one of job, visit, media, customer, property, equipment, quote, invoice, request, worker, payment, pricebook_item, maintenance_plan, shop) | no |
| `limit` | integer | no |

## Example

```http
GET https://doingwork.work/v1/notes/search?shop_id=00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000&q=...
```

## Output

| Field | Type | Always there |
|---|---|---|
| `items` | array | yes |
| `items[].note_id` | string (uuid) | yes |
| `items[].shop_id` | string (uuid) | yes |
| `items[].target_kind` | string | yes |
| `items[].target_id` | string (uuid) | yes |
| `items[].job_id` | ['string', 'null', ' ', '(', 'u', 'u', 'i', 'd', ')'] | yes |
| `items[].visit_id` | ['string', 'null', ' ', '(', 'u', 'u', 'i', 'd', ')'] | yes |
| `items[].mentions` | array | yes |
| `items[].agent_name` | ['string', 'null'] | yes |
| `items[].source` | string | yes |
| `items[].body` | string | yes |
| `items[].audience` | string | yes |
| `items[].pinned` | boolean | yes |
| `items[].media_ids` | array | yes |
| `items[].recorded_at` | ['string', 'null', ' ', '(', 'd', 'a', 't', 'e', '-', 't', 'i', 'm', 'e', ')'] | yes |
| `items[].duration_seconds` | ['integer', 'null'] | yes |
| `items[].transcribed_with` | ['string', 'null'] | yes |
| `items[].language` | ['string', 'null'] | yes |
| `items[].revisions` | integer | yes |
| `items[].written_by` | string (uuid) | yes |
| `items[].written_by_name` | ['string', 'null'] | yes |
| `items[].created_at` | string (date-time) | yes |
| `items[].edited_at` | ['string', 'null', ' ', '(', 'd', 'a', 't', 'e', '-', 't', 'i', 'm', 'e', ')'] | yes |
| `items[].removed_at` | ['string', 'null', ' ', '(', 'd', 'a', 't', 'e', '-', 't', 'i', 'm', 'e', ')'] | yes |
| `items[].removed_by` | ['string', 'null', ' ', '(', 'u', 'u', 'i', 'd', ')'] | yes |
| `items[].remove_reason` | ['string', 'null'] | yes |
| `items[].rank` | number | yes |

```json
{
  "items": [
    {
      "note_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "shop_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "target_kind": "...",
      "target_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "job_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "visit_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "mentions": [
        "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000"
      ],
      "agent_name": "...",
      "source": "...",
      "body": "...",
      "audience": "...",
      "pinned": true,
      "media_ids": [
        "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000"
      ],
      "recorded_at": "...",
      "duration_seconds": "...",
      "transcribed_with": "...",
      "language": "...",
      "revisions": 1,
      "written_by": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "written_by_name": "...",
      "created_at": "...",
      "edited_at": "...",
      "removed_at": "...",
      "removed_by": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "remove_reason": "...",
      "rank": "..."
    }
  ]
}
```

## Errors

| Code | Status | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| `invalid_input`, `invalid_token`, `rate_limited` |  | Can happen on any call. See [errors](https://doingwork.work/docs/errors/). |