--- title: "Searching and editing Junk Yard items" url: https://storagestudio.us/wiki/searching-the-junk-yard category: "Junk Yard" tags: ["junk yard", "search", "notes"] summary: "Find a scrap by typing in the Junk Yard's search box — it matches words, file names and the text inside pictures — or narrow the board by kind, date and colour. Editing a note or picture always saves a new scrap and leaves the original as it was." updated: 2026-10-01T05:36:14.000Z --- # Searching and editing Junk Yard items Find a scrap by typing in the Junk Yard's search box — it matches words, file names and the text inside pictures — or narrow the board by kind, date and colour. Editing a note or picture always saves a new scrap and leaves the original as it was. Type in the search box at the top of the [Junk Yard](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/junk-yard) and the board narrows as you type — it matches the words in a scrap, a file's name and even the text inside a picture. One-tap filters narrow it further by kind, by date and by colour. When you edit a note or a picture, Storage Studio saves the result as a **new** scrap and leaves the original as it was. ## Filters Under the search box: | Filter | Shows | |---|---| | All | Everything on the board | | Pinned | Scraps you pinned to the top | | Clipboard | Scraps caught from your clipboard, including ones saved with the shortcut | | Notes | Notes and items you added by hand | | Media | Pictures, video and audio | | Files | Files and folders | | Links | Web links | | Text | Plain-text snippets | | Rich | Formatted notes | A date menu narrows the board by when a scrap was added: **Any time**, **Today**, **Yesterday**, **2 days ago**, **3 days ago** or **Earlier**. **Colour labels.** Click the colour dot on a card and pick one of seven colours — or none — to group related scraps; the card takes on a soft tint. Once you've coloured some scraps, a row of colour chips appears so you can show just one colour; **Clear** shows them all again. If you've connected a [Bridge](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/bridge-devices) device, a **Remote** menu lets you show only the scraps that came from one device. ## Smart find Next to the search box, **Smart find** makes search work by meaning rather than exact words, and reads the text inside pictures. It runs entirely on your Mac. ```mermaid %% caption: What Smart find does with your search flowchart TD A[You type in the search box] --> B{Smart find on?} B -->|No| C[Exact matches on words and file names] B -->|Yes| D[Matches by meaning, plus text read from pictures] D --> E{Apple Intelligence on, and you press Return on a phrase?} E -->|Yes| F[The phrase is turned into filters, such as Media and Yesterday] E -->|No| G[The results stay as they are] ``` *Flowchart — What Smart find does with your search. Outline:* - You type in the search box - leads to Smart find on? - Smart find on? - No: leads to Exact matches on words and file names - Yes: leads to Matches by meaning, plus text read from pictures - Matches by meaning, plus text read from pictures - leads to Apple Intelligence on, and you press Return on a phrase? - Apple Intelligence on, and you press Return on a phrase? - Yes: leads to The phrase is turned into filters, such as Media and Yesterday - No: leads to The results stay as they are - On a Mac with Apple Intelligence, the button reads **Powered by Apple Intelligence**. Type a phrase such as "images from yesterday" or "that link I copied" and press Return, and it sets the matching filters for you. - On other Macs it reads **On-device search**: meaning-based matching and the text inside pictures still work, without the phrase-to-filters step. - Click **Smart find** to turn it off; it then reads **Off · exact match**. See [Tuhi on a Mac without Apple Intelligence](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/tuhi-without-apple-intelligence) for more on what changes without Apple Intelligence. ## Looking at a scrap Click a text or picture card to open it in a large **preview** you can move and resize. Page through scraps with the ‹ › buttons or the arrow keys, zoom pictures with ⌘+ and ⌘−, and press Esc to close. From the preview you can set the scrap's lifetime, pin and colour, and use **Edit**, **Copy**, **Delete**, or **Open** for a file or **Open link** for a web address. ## Notes **New note** in the header opens the note editor. It has bold, italic, underline, monospace for code, bulleted and numbered lists, **Insert link** and **Insert image**. ⌘B, ⌘I and ⌘U work as usual. Click a picture inside a note to resize it with **Small**, **Medium**, **Large** or **Fit**. Choose how long the note lasts, then click **Add to Junk**. ## Editing a picture Click **Edit** on a picture scrap to open the image editor. You can **Rotate left** or **Rotate right**, **Flip horizontal** or **Flip vertical**, adjust **Brightness**, **Contrast** and **Color**, and **Crop** by dragging the corner handles, then **Apply crop**. **Reset adjustments** undoes your changes before you save. To put a picture from a file on the board without editing it, use **Add image** in the header. **Embed file** adds a reference to a file. ## Edits make a copy Saving an edit never changes the original scrap. In the note editor the button reads **Save a copy**; in the image editor, **Save**. Either way the result becomes a new scrap that keeps the original's colour, pin and auto-clear timer, and it's copied to your clipboard ready to paste. See also: [Clipboard capture, pins and how long items last](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/clipboard-capture) · [Junk Yard shortcuts](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/junk-yard-shortcuts) · [Opening the Junk Yard from the screen edge](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/opening-the-junk-yard) ## What links here - [Clipboard capture, pins and how long items last](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/clipboard-capture) - [Opening the Junk Yard from the screen edge](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/opening-the-junk-yard) - [The Junk Yard](https://storagestudio.us/wiki/junk-yard)