How do I search for a note in the activity history?
Use the Search the history field above the activity list. It exists in both places: the opportunity history and the contact history. Type your text and the list narrows to what matches — no need to scroll through months of history.
Before you start
- Who can: anyone who already sees that opportunity's or contact's history. Search does not widen what you can see, it only narrows it.
- Search works alongside the other filters: in the contact history, the typed term and the filter bar (event, period, offer, tag) add up.
Search
- Open the opportunity or the contact.
- In the Search the history field, type the text you are looking for.
- The list refreshes on its own after a brief pause in typing.
To go back to the full history, click the X inside the field.
What search reaches (and what it does not)
Search looks at the text someone wrote: the content of notes and the subject that came with the event (the name of a completed task, for example).
It does not look at the labels the screen builds — "Status changed", "Opportunity moved" and the like. Searching for moved will not return stage moves. To narrow by activity type, use the filter bar instead of search.
A few useful details:
- It is not case sensitive.
- It finds the term anywhere in the text, not only at the start.
- Characters like
%and_are treated as ordinary text: searching for100%looks for exactly100%.
Search in the opportunity history
While a term is typed, the Pinned section stays hidden — the screen shows only what matches the search. Clear the field to bring it back. See Pin a note to the top of an opportunity.
Related
- Pin a note to the top of an opportunity
- Edit or delete an opportunity note
- Export the activity history
If it did not work
- Search came back empty but you are sure the activity exists → check whether your term lives in a screen label rather than in written text. See the section above on what search reaches.
- In the contact history, search came back empty → a filter in the bar may be narrowing it too. Remove the filter chips and search again.