Find Any Video Faster: Quiki's New Search Syntax

Once your Quiki library grows past a few dozen videos, scrolling stops working. So we rebuilt search from the ground up. The box above your library now understands a simple, powerful syntax: combine words, exclude them, match exact phrases, and filter by platform, creator, folder, or transcript.

Every operator below is also tucked into the "?" button right next to the search bar, so you never have to remember it. Here is the full set.

Combine words

By default, every word you type has to appear. Type two words and you get only videos that match both.

• cooking pasta finds videos that contain both "cooking" and "pasta".

Want either word instead of both? Use a capital OR between them.

• pasta OR pizza finds videos that mention either one.

The OR has to be in capitals so we can tell it apart from the word "or" in a title. You can chain it too, so pasta OR pizza OR risotto widens the net to all three.

Exclude and match exactly

Sometimes the fastest way to find something is to rule things out.

• -ad leaves out any video containing "ad". Put a minus sign in front of any word to exclude it.

And when only the precise wording will do, wrap it in quotes.

• "morning routine" matches that exact phrase, not the two words scattered apart.

You can combine the two to exclude a phrase, so -"social media" filters those videos out entirely.

Filter by what matters

This is where search gets really fast. Filters narrow your library by a specific attribute.

• platform:tiktok limits results to one platform. Works with tiktok, youtube, instagram, and youtube-shorts.
• author:gordon finds videos by a specific creator name.
• folder:"Recipes" searches inside a particular folder.
• has:transcript shows only videos that have a transcript.

Mix and match

The real power comes from combining everything in one line. Every part stacks together.

• platform:youtube cooking -ad finds YouTube cooking videos that are not ads.

Stack as many pieces as you like. Filter to a platform, require a couple of words, exclude another, and pull from a single folder, all in one search.

It searches more than titles

Behind the scenes, search now looks through far more than the video title. It reads the description, hashtags, creator name, your own notes, the AI summary, and the full transcript. We also made TikTok transcripts searchable for the first time, so the actual spoken words in a video are now findable alongside everything else.

No syntax to memorize

You do not have to learn any of this to use it. Anything we do not recognize as an operator is simply searched as plain text, so typing a normal phrase still just works. And if you ever want a refresher, the "?" button beside the search bar lists every operator with a live example.

Give it a try on your own library. Once you have searched with a filter or two, the scroll bar starts to feel like a relic.