Curiosity can handle most common file types, and can search by file name and by contents (with few exceptions).
You can select which file types you want to make searchable or not at any given moment.
|| 💡 Read this article to learn how to change which file types are indexed for search.
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File Types Available for Search
Find below all the file types available for search inside your Curiosity app.
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Documents
- Documents (.doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, Google docs, .ott, .odm, .dot, .dotx, .docm, .dotm, .odf, .afpub)
- Sheets (.xls, .xlsx, .ods, Google sheets, .xlt, .csv, .tsv, .xlsm, .xltm, .ots)
- Slides (.ppt, .pptx, .odp, .otp, Google slides, .ppsx, .potx, .ppam, .ppsm, .pptm, .potm, .pot, .pps, .ppa)
- Pdfs (.pdf, .eps, .xps)
- Ebooks (.epub, .mobi)
- Text files (.txt, .md, .log, .json, .xml, .vcard)
- OneNote (.one, .onetoc2, .onepkg)
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| 💡 See how to enable search inside the text of scanned PDFs here.
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Emails, Messages, Calendars
- Emails (.msg, .eml)
- Outlook archives (.pst)
- Calendars (.ics, Google calendar events)
- Slack messages
- Teams messages
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| 📎 Attachments in emails and messages are also searchable.
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Images and drawings
- Images ( .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .dng, .webp, .raw, .heic, .heif, .psb, .svg, .odg, .otg, .odi)
- Diagrams (.vsd)
- Drawings (.dwg, .dxf, .vsd, .dgn, .indd, .stl, .odc, Google drawing, .ai, .xmind)
- Photoshop (.psd) 🔤
- Figma (.fig) 🔤
- Affinity Designer (.afdesign, .aftemplate, .afphoto) 🔤
| 💡 See how to enable search inside the text of images here.
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Audio and video
- Video files (.mp4, .wmv, .mpeg, .avi, .mkv, .mov, .ogv, .3gp, .m4a, .oga, .weba, .webm, .flv) 🔤
- Audio files (.mp3, .wav, .mka, .wma, .flac, .aac, .aiff) 🔤
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Code
- Code Files (.ps, .cs, .fs, .css, .js, .class, .java, .c, .cpp, .h, .php, .py, .sh, .bat, .swift, .vb) 🔤
| 💡 See how to enable code search here.
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Other file types
- Webpages (.html, .htm)
- File archives (.zip, .rar, .7z, .ace, .gz, .bz, .bz2, .tar, .cab, .onepkg)