Searching ideas[idea:searching]

An outline lists your rookery. Searching it is a separate package, @rheo/rookery-search, and it is worth knowing that it comes in three layers, because only the top one needs Rheo.

#ideas() is the bottom layer, and it lives in rookery itself: every idea in the rookery as plain data — its id, its title, its dates, and a link to its page. Everything else is built on it, and so can anything you want to write.

#search-ideas("query") ranks that corpus and hands back the matches, still as data. It is ordinary Typst, so it runs under plain typst compile with no Rheo and no JavaScript at all:

#import "@rheo/rookery-search:0.1.0": search-ideas
#context {
  for e in search-ideas("window") [ - #link(e.href, e.text) ]
}

That is a search rendered at compile time — a static list of matches, which is a perfectly good answer for a printed target, or for a site that would rather not ship a script.

#search-bar() is the top layer, and the one in the header of this page. It puts the corpus on the page as JSON, adds an input, and wires the two together in the browser. This is the layer that needs Rheo: its results link to the standalone pages Rheo mints, and its behaviour comes from a script Rheo injects. Without Rheo it emits nothing, rather than a search box that could never work.

#import "@rheo/rookery-search:0.1.0": search-bar
#search-bar(placeholder: "Search ideas", limit: 12)

Matching runs over an idea’s id and its title, never its body, and it is a subsequence match — so wnd finds Windows. A - or _ reads as a space, which is why window-depth is findable as “window depth” too.

If the bar is not the interface you want, you are not stuck with it. Iterate #search-ideas in Typst and render whatever you like, or rank in the browser with the same rule the bar uses, exposed there as RheoRookerySearch.score. What you should not do is write a second ranking rule of your own: the package keeps its Typst and JavaScript copies pinned to each other by a test, and a third copy would drift from both.

This site is written with rookery, so this idea is in that index like any other — the search box above will find it.