feat: add title-only search mode

Adds a titleOnly flag to page search: the Postgres driver matches
titles via trigram-indexed unaccented LIKE ranked by word_similarity,
and a Match filter in the search spotlight switches between everything
and title-only matching.

apps/client/public/locales/en-US/translation.json

@@ -1308,5 +1308,8 @@
   "Toggle workspace knowledge only": "Toggle workspace knowledge only",
   "Read-only mode": "Read-only mode",
   "AI Chat can search and read workspace content, but cannot create or edit pages.": "AI Chat can search and read workspace content, but cannot create or edit pages.",
-  "Toggle AI Chat read-only mode": "Toggle AI Chat read-only mode"
+  "Toggle AI Chat read-only mode": "Toggle AI Chat read-only mode",
+  "Match": "Match",
+  "Everything": "Everything",
+  "Title only": "Title only"
 }

apps/client/src/features/search/components/search-spotlight-filters.tsx

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
   IconCheck,
   IconUser,
   IconTag,
+  IconLetterCase,
 } from "@tabler/icons-react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { useGetSpacesQuery } from "@/features/space/queries/space-query";
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ export function SearchSpotlightFilters({
     null
   );
   const [selectedLabelIds, setSelectedLabelIds] = useState<string[]>([]);
+  const [titleOnly, setTitleOnly] = useState(false);
   const [openedFilter, setOpenedFilter] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [visibleFilters, setVisibleFilters] = useState<string[]>([]);
   const [workspace] = useAtom(workspaceAtom);
@@ -77,12 +79,14 @@ export function SearchSpotlightFilters({
       contentType,
       creatorId: selectedCreatorId,
       labelIds: selectedLabelIds,
+      titleOnly,
     });
   }, [
     selectedSpaceId,
     contentType,
     selectedCreatorId,
     selectedLabelIds,
+    titleOnly,
     onFiltersChange,
   ]);
 
@@ -250,6 +254,55 @@ export function SearchSpotlightFilters({
         </Menu.Dropdown>
       </Menu>
 
+      {contentType !== "attachment" && !isAiMode && (
+        <Menu
+          shadow="md"
+          width={200}
+          position="bottom-start"
+          zIndex={getDefaultZIndex("max")}
+        >
+          <Menu.Target>
+            <Button
+              variant="subtle"
+              color="gray"
+              size="sm"
+              rightSection={<IconChevronDown size={14} />}
+              leftSection={<IconLetterCase size={16} />}
+              className={classes.filterButton}
+              fw={500}
+            >
+              {`${t("Match")}: ${titleOnly ? t("Title only") : t("Everything")}`}
+            </Button>
+          </Menu.Target>
+          <Menu.Dropdown>
+            <Menu.Item
+              component={RadioMenuItem}
+              aria-checked={!titleOnly}
+              onClick={() => setTitleOnly(false)}
+            >
+              <Group flex="1" gap="xs">
+                <Text size="sm" style={{ flex: 1 }}>
+                  {t("Everything")}
+                </Text>
+                {!titleOnly && <IconCheck size={20} aria-hidden />}
+              </Group>
+            </Menu.Item>
+            <Menu.Item
+              component={RadioMenuItem}
+              aria-checked={titleOnly}
+              onClick={() => setTitleOnly(true)}
+            >
+              <Group flex="1" gap="xs">
+                <Text size="sm" style={{ flex: 1 }}>
+                  {t("Title only")}
+                </Text>
+                {titleOnly && <IconCheck size={20} aria-hidden />}
+              </Group>
+            </Menu.Item>
+          </Menu.Dropdown>
+        </Menu>
+      )}
+
       {orderedVisibleFilters.map((filterKey) => {
         if (filterKey === "creator") {
           return (

apps/client/src/features/search/components/search-spotlight.tsx

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ export function SearchSpotlight({ spaceId }: SearchSpotlightProps) {
     contentType?: string;
     creatorId?: string | null;
     labelIds?: string[];
+    titleOnly?: boolean;
   }>({
     contentType: "page",
   });
@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ export function SearchSpotlight({ spaceId }: SearchSpotlightProps) {
       params.labelIds = filters.labelIds;
     }
 
+    if (filters.titleOnly) {
+      params.titleOnly = true;
+    }
+
     return params;
   }, [debouncedSearchQuery, filters]);
 

apps/client/src/features/search/types/search.types.ts

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ export interface IPageSearchParams {
   shareId?: string;
   creatorId?: string;
   labelIds?: string[];
+  titleOnly?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface IAttachmentSearch {

apps/server/src/core/search/dto/search.dto.ts

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ export class SearchDTO {
   @IsUUID('all', { each: true })
   labelIds?: string[];
 
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsBoolean()
+  titleOnly?: boolean;
+
   @IsOptional()
   @IsNumber()
   limit?: number;

apps/server/src/core/search/search.service.ts

@@ -36,6 +36,21 @@ export class SearchService {
     }
     const searchQuery = tsquery(query.trim() + '*');
     const labelIds = [...new Set(searchParams.labelIds ?? [])];
+    const titleOnly = searchParams.titleOnly === true;
+    const titleQuery = query.trim();
+
+    const rankColumn = titleOnly
+      ? sql<number>`word_similarity(lower(f_unaccent(${titleQuery})), lower(f_unaccent(pages.title)))`.as(
+          'rank',
+        )
+      : sql<number>`ts_rank(tsv, to_tsquery('english', f_unaccent(${searchQuery})))`.as(
+          'rank',
+        );
+    const highlightColumn = titleOnly
+      ? sql<string>`''`.as('highlight')
+      : sql<string>`ts_headline('english', text_content, to_tsquery('english', f_unaccent(${searchQuery})),'MinWords=9, MaxWords=10, MaxFragments=3')`.as(
+          'highlight',
+        );
 
     let queryResults = this.db
       .selectFrom('pages')
@@ -48,17 +63,24 @@ export class SearchService {
         'creatorId',
         'createdAt',
         'updatedAt',
-        sql<number>`ts_rank(tsv, to_tsquery('english', f_unaccent(${searchQuery})))`.as(
+        rankColumn,
-          'rank',
+        highlightColumn,
-        ),
-        sql<string>`ts_headline('english', text_content, to_tsquery('english', f_unaccent(${searchQuery})),'MinWords=9, MaxWords=10, MaxFragments=3')`.as(
-          'highlight',
-        ),
       ])
-      .where(
+      .$if(!titleOnly, (qb) =>
+        qb.where(
           'tsv',
           '@@',
           sql<string>`to_tsquery('english', f_unaccent(${searchQuery}))`,
+        ),
+      )
+      .$if(titleOnly, (qb) =>
+        qb.where((eb) =>
+          eb(
+            sql`lower(f_unaccent(pages.title))`,
+            'like',
+            sql`lower(f_unaccent(${`%${titleQuery}%`}))`,
+          ),
+        ),
       )
       .$if(Boolean(searchParams.creatorId), (qb) =>
         qb.where('creatorId', '=', searchParams.creatorId),

apps/server/src/database/migrations/20260824T211732-page-title-trgm-index.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import { type Kysely, sql } from 'kysely';
+
+export async function up(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  await sql`CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS pages_title_trgm_idx ON pages USING gin (lower(f_unaccent(title)) gin_trgm_ops)`.execute(
+    db,
+  );
+}
+
+export async function down(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  await sql`DROP INDEX IF EXISTS pages_title_trgm_idx`.execute(db);
+}