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Read a search match in its original context
A search for 09:00 returns both an opening-hours line and a quoted holiday note; open each match to see which one is the instruction.
A match points to a record, not to an answer
The browser search tool returns the numbers of the records whose normalized text contains the query. It does not rank them or say why the words are there. In the Shotnest app, a search result opens the screenshot itself, and the detail view can highlight the first line that contains a searched word, so the surrounding layout is one tap away.
That surrounding context is what separates an opening time from a quotation of one, a product you looked at from a product you bought, or a reminder from a reference you only meant to read.
The app search needs every word of the query to appear in a screenshot, in any order. A two-word query such as a shop name plus a day therefore returns fewer screenshots than either word alone, but each result still has to be read: the words can sit in different lines that have nothing to do with each other.
Work through two matches
Supplied records: 1 “Opening hours 09:00 to 17:00” and 2 “Quote: we open at 09:00 on holidays”. Query: 09:00. Both records match, so the tool returns 1 and 2.
- Read record 1 in full: it states regular opening hours.
- Read record 2 in full: the word Quote and the phrase on holidays limit it to a special case.
- Open the screenshot for each when the layout carries meaning, such as a strikethrough or a date heading above the text.
- Check the business or organisation itself before relying on either time today.
- Query
- 09:00
- Matching record numbers
- 1, 2
Common reading errors
- Acting on the first match without reading the record it belongs to.
- Treating a screenshot of a price or a timetable as current because it was easy to find again.
- Copying a matched line without the heading that says which branch, date or product it refers to.
- Forgetting that the same words can appear in a quotation, an advert and an instruction.
A screenshot is a dated view
Finding a line again does not refresh it. A captured opening time, price or rule reflects the moment of capture. Use the search tool linked below to locate the record, then confirm anything changeable with the source that published it.
Searching again later returns the same captured words; it is the reading of the record that tells you whether they still apply.