Filter

You can add a filter to easily find important contents. There are two ways to apply a filter:

  • Tap or click on a filter on the Search Panel
  • Tap or click on a filter on the Side Panel when a journal is open 

Filter on Search Results

The Search Panel on the top of Microsoft Journal provides a powerful Search experience. You can add a filter to refine your content search, with or without a keyword.

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Filter through Side Panel

The Side Panel provides powerful ways to help you find content within a journal. Refer to Page and Card Navigation help page for more details on Side Panel navigation. 

To reach your desired content faster, add filter by selecting the  869e2483-c176-4d29-9ee4-3efe996ab7b6 icon and a list of filter icons will appear. Pages with the filtered content will appear on the Side Panel. 

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List of Available Filters

Below is a list of available filters, based on content type and recognized Ink gestures. 

Filter Icon Description
Stars d7a69693-af5c-479c-b5e6-d60ff088205f Content next to a five-point star or an asterisk
Highlights ca749af7-a8c3-4810-afd3-1194c9c5c5d0 Content marked up with a Highlighter tool
Headings a5a47b2f-b2f6-454f-bc34-c643047f7003 Content underlined as a heading. Only content starting at the beginning of a line will be recognized as heading
Drawings 09feb9bf-9157-4779-b272-6f80f8e63d18 Contents recognized as a drawing
PDF 8d7df436-ed9a-44fb-b928-b297f10df739 Pages containing an imported PDF
Calendar Meetings 46d94de8-ba7b-43b3-a671-ce4ff47382c0 Pages created from Calendars that have the meeting header
Available for users who signed in using a Microsoft account
Lists cb2d1f57-7bc7-4363-ae78-3c4b25132f78 Content recognized as list
@Mention 1d775504-d984-45a1-b054-2f4ca645d989 @Mention content added to page
Available for users who signed in using a Microsoft account
Annotations 90ea107f-0dc4-4c60-bdea-f93e36494027 PDF pages marked up with Ink