Use Search when you want the item

Search accepts ordinary language rather than requiring an exact bookmark title. The current Search screen can combine text and semantic matching with structured filters.

• Search by topic: “pricing research for onboarding.”
• Search by partial memory: “the TikTok about landing pages.”
• Search by time: “recipes I saved last month.”
• Filter by folder, platform, item type, or time range.
• Use Search’s summarization option when you want a short synthesis without leaving the retrieval flow.

Use Ask when you want an answer across saves

Ask retrieves relevant saved material, writes a response, and displays source cards so you can return to the supporting notes. It works best after you have enough relevant saves in the library.

• “What objections have I saved about data imports?”
• “What did my saved sources say about retrieval quality?”
• “Compare the pricing approaches in the competitor pages I saved.”

Ask has plan-based usage limits. Search is not charged as a capture-credit action.

Which should you choose?

Search quality depends on what Sendlore captured

Depending on the source, retrieval can use the title, source details, your Why saved note, extracted content, summary, key takeaways, transcript, tags, folder context, and other indexed fields. A metadata-only save naturally gives Search and Ask less evidence than a complete capture.

If Search or Ask misses something

1. Open the item and confirm it finished processing rather than remaining pending or failed.
2. Check whether the save is metadata-only or otherwise limited.
3. Add or improve the Why saved field if your own context is the part you expect to remember.
4. Clear overly narrow folder, platform, type, or time filters.
5. Try a shorter query based on the strongest remembered concept or source.
6. For a clearly incomplete save, use Retry extraction from the item’s More actions menu when appropriate.