# Advanced Meeting Search Tips

Source: https://lessmeeting.com/help/advanced-meeting-search-tips/

Search every past meeting's notes, decisions, action items, subjects and tags — plus the wildcards that narrow a long result list down fast.

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Less Meeting's Search feature is a powerful way to access any of your historical meeting details. Used with the various filter options on the [Meetings page](https://app.lessmeeting.com/meetings), you can quickly find an important note from a meeting last week or last year.

![](/_astro/Search.BcGDs7pq_Z24Xcab.webp)

### What Does Search Include?

Less Meeting search is very powerful. Your search terms include all of the following:

* Meeting Notes
* Decisions
* Action Items
* Subjects
* Tags

### Searching With Wildcards

To help you narrow down your search results even more we have some helpful wildcards to use.​

* **"-"** to exclude results (e.g. "-status")
* **"+"** to require a term (e.g. "+status")
* **"\*"** to complete a phrase (e.g. "stat\*" to represent "status", "state", "statue", etc)