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One search box finds games, translations, people and tools from anywhere in Tranzio. Learn it once and you'll stop using menus.
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One search box finds games, translations, people and tools from anywhere in Tranzio. Learn it once and you'll stop using menus.
There is exactly one search in Tranzio, and it searches everything. Games, translations, people, tools, even your own notifications. That's deliberate: you should never have to think about where to search, only what you're looking for. Type a couple of letters and results appear as you go; no Enter needed until you pick one.
Opening search
The search box sits in the top bar on every screen. Click it, or better, press Ctrl + F from anywhere. That shortcut is the single biggest speed upgrade in the app, because it works no matter what you're doing.
Two small things worth knowing. Search starts at two letters, so a single character shows you your recent searches instead of results. And it waits about half a second after you stop typing before it asks the server, so a fast typist sends one query rather than eight.
What it finds
Results come back grouped by kind, and each group arrives on its own the moment it's ready rather than waiting for the slowest one. A search for "silk" can put the game, the Japanese translation of it and the translator who made that translation on screen together, without them fighting for space.
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EnterSee all 2 results for “silksong”
| Group | What it matches |
|---|---|
| Projects | Translations, matched on the adaptation's own name or on the game it belongs to. Every public one, plus your own unpublished work. The line underneath shows its status and how much text is done. |
| Games | Games in the catalog, by name. Opening one takes you to its game page. |
| Users | Translators and teams. Open a profile to see their work, or start a message. People who turned off "list me" in privacy settings are not listed here. |
| Tools | The engine tools Tranzio can install for you, by name or slug. They all open the Tools page. |
| Notifications | Your own alerts, matched on their title or body, in case you dismissed one too quickly. Only yours, and only the ones you haven't cleared. |
Text and audio lines inside a translation are not searched here. They live in each adaptation's own database on your machine, so the place to search them is the Text page of the game you have open.
Narrowing to one kind
The row of pills above the results is the scope, and it's pick-one. Tap Games and only games show; tap All to widen it again. Every pill carries its own count, so you can see how many people or tools matched before deciding whether to look at them, and a pill with nothing behind it dims rather than disappearing.
- Silksong, JapaneseAcme · v2.5.0Projects
- Silksong, UkrainianSvit Games · v0.4.1Projects
- HKHollow Knight: SilksongMetroidvania · 3 adaptationsGames
- SCSilkroad ChroniclesAdventure · 1 adaptationGames
- ALAcme LocalizationTranslation team · 9 adaptationsUsers
- DownloadsQueue, pause and resume installsTools
- Silksong Japanese v2.5.0 is outRelease · 2 days agoNotifications
When nothing matches
An empty result isn't a dead end. Most of the time it's a spelling slip or a name that's shorter in the catalog than in your memory. The empty state tells you so:
Nothing matches “silskong”
Check the spelling, or try a shorter part of the name.
If you had a scope pinned when the search came up empty, the panel offers to search every category instead, which is the fix roughly half the time. Worth trying before you conclude the thing doesn't exist.
If a game truly isn't in the catalog, no translation exists for it yet. You can start one yourself with Add game.
The full results page
The dropdown shows the best few per group. Press Enter without highlighting anything, or click the line at the bottom of the dropdown, and you get the whole thing: the same groups with room to breathe, up to twenty per group, and tabs across the top to jump between them.
Search results
3 matches across 2 sources.
Moving with the keyboard
You can run a whole search without touching the mouse:
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+K | Open search from anywhere and select what's already typed |
| ↑ / ↓ | Move between results, wrapping around at either end |
| Enter | Open the highlighted result, or the full results page when nothing is highlighted |
| Esc | Clear the text, then close on a second press |
Search is also the fastest way to switch between games you're working on. Type a name, press Enter, and you're there.