Comment by rudasn

One simple way to get around this is to use some sort of labelling system for your notes.

Then you can hash the labels and keep an index of the hash. You can also symmetrically encrypt the hash, or slugify it first. The index can be a file, or many, that you load in memory and keep updated / synced on changes.

You can then do label-based searches on your notes by first hashing the input string and searching for an exact match in the index.

For something like full text search on encrypted data, I guess you'd need to use a database that already does that.