# Search Aden from any app
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/apps/desktop/search-from-anywhere

Open Aden's search over whatever you are doing, find tracks and files, launch apps or create something from selected text.
Press **⌃Space** (Control+Space) in any app and Aden's search opens over it. Aden has to be running; sitting in the menu bar is enough.

## Find anything [#find-anything]

Type and press Enter. Search finds:

* Teams, pages and screens of Aden.
* Your team's tracks. Pick one to see its cover, status, linked folder and every action for it.
* DAW projects, audio and MIDI anywhere on your computer. Inside a folder linked to a track it finds every file, so artwork and split sheets come up by name or by the track's title.
* Music apps on your computer. Type "ableton" or "serato" to launch one.
* Settings. Type "clear cache" and it opens Settings on that switch.

A cloud on a row means the file has a copy in Aden. Hover an audio file's icon to play it. Click "…" on a row, or press ⌘K on it, for its actions: open in your DAW, start or link a track, share, show in Finder, send it as a transfer.

With nothing typed, you see what you opened lately.

## Search by voice [#search-by-voice]

Press **⌃⇧Space** to open it listening. Say what you are looking for and the words land in the search.

## Create from selected text [#create-from-selected-text]

1. Select words in any app: Notes, Mail, a browser.
2. Press **⌥⌘C** (Ctrl+Alt+C on Windows).
3. Pick New track, Studio session, Todo or something else.

Aden opens quick create with the line filled in. Nothing is saved until you confirm. On a Mac this needs Accessibility permission the first time.

## Ask Aden or message someone [#ask-aden-or-message-someone]

* Type a question and press Enter, or pick **Ask Aden**. Chat opens with your message sent.
* Type a name for "Message" followed by that person.
* With a page like SoundCloud open, search offers what you can do with it: ask for a review, save it as a reference, send it to a recent chat. Nothing goes out until you press send.

## Change the shortcut [#change-the-shortcut]

Go to **Settings → General → Search shortcut**, click the shortcut and press the keys you want. The shortcut for creating from text is under **Create from selection**.

## Related [#related]

* [Drop files on the notch](/docs/help/apps/desktop/drop-shelf)
* [Search and ⌘K](/docs/help/start-here/search)