You should start seeing your results update in the middle pane in near real-time.Click on the little arrow pointing downward and select “Notes”.Go to the search box in the top right-hand corner of Mendeley Desktop.Yes, you can search for the text contained within your notes! Now, one thing you, and many Mendeley Desktop users, probably don’t know is that you can constrain your search to specific fields such as the Title, Authors and even your own notes. If you happen to be reading a PDF in Mendeley Desktop, the search tool will show you results only within that paper. Many of these task are context based, meaning that if you search while looking at your library or a collection in your library, you only get results from the currently selected folder. Mendeley Desktop provides you with a multitude of ways to organize, filter and search your documents. There is just too much information to properly organize, memorize and store in a structured fashion. Search has become such a fundamental part of our daily routine.