In the next few days Google Wave will be opened to another 100,000 users. The below information is actually taken from a current Wave that was posted by Gregory Dalesandre. It is an extremely helpful Cheat Sheet and I recommend printing it out and having nearby as you navigate around the Wave Client.

Search Cheat Sheet

This is a quick guide to the operators and restricts supported by wave search.

Keywords

about:[keyword] — finds waves which have [keyword] occurring anywhere. Same as [keyword].

title:[keyword] — finds waves which have [keyword] in the title.

caption:[keyword] — finds waves which have an attachment where [keyword] occurs in the caption.

Status

is:read — finds all read waves.

is:unread — finds all unread waves.

Note: you cannot currently do a search like “-is:read” by itself and get reliable results due to an outstanding restriction on megastore queries

is:mute — finds all muted waves.

is:unmute — finds all waves not muted

is:active — currently the same as is:unread.

is:note — finds all waves which have you as the only participant and contributor

Participants

from:[address] — finds waves from the participant identified by the address. Special case of from:me identifying waves from yourself.

by:[address] — same as from:[address].

to:[address] — find waves which are a dialogue between you and the participant identified by the address.

with:[address] — find waves that have the participant identified by the given address explicitly listed.

owner:[address] — find waves by person, that they created.

only:[address] — finds waves to which only the participant specified by the given address contributed.

Date Search

Currently, there are a few restricts:

past:[date term] — finds all waves in the last period.

previous:[date term] — finds all waves in the period before the last period.

before:[date term] — finds all waves before a certain period.

after:[date term] — finds all waves after a certain period.

which can be combined with date terms:

day

week

month

year

So you can have past:week, past:year. There is also support for

past:N[date term]

where N > 0. So you can have past:3days (today, yesterday, the day before yesterday).

Also you can have

past:Ndays

past:Nweeks

past:Nmonths

past:Nyears

Finally, you can abbreviate days, weeks, months and years to a single letter (d, w, m, y). Thus you can write

past:3d

past:2w

Folders

in:[folder name] — find waves in the folder with the given name. For example, in:inbox.

in:[search name] — find waves in the saved search with the given name.

is:unfiled — find waves which have not been moved to a user folder.

is:filed — find waves which belong to some user folder.

Attachments

has:attachment — finds waves with an attachment. This changed from “is:image”.

has:document — finds waves with an attachment which is a document. (coming soon)

has:image — finds waves with an attachments which is an image. (coming soon)

caption:[keyword] — finds waves with an attachment with caption containing [keyword].

filename:[keyword] — finds waves with an attachment with filename containing [keyword]. (coming soon)

mimetype:[keyword] — finds waves with an attachment with mimetype containing [keyword]. (coming soon)

Tags

tag:[tag name] — finds waves with the tag [tag name].

Gadgets

has:gadget — finds waves which contain a gadget.

gadget:[keyword] — finds waves which contain a gadget with name containing keywords. e.g. chess, fridge, map, risk, sokoban.

gadgeturl:[keyword] — finds waves which contain a gadget with urls containing keyword.

gadgettitle:[keyword] — finds waves which contain a gadget with a title containing keywords.

Expressions

foo & bar — match waves with foo and bar.

You can use AND, or skip the operator altogether, as the logical and is the default.

foo | bar — match waves with foo or bar (or both).

foo OR bar — match waves with foo or bar (or both).

-foo — match waves that do not contain foo. (There is an outstanding bug that causes searches with only negative terms to fail. To get around it, use to:me -foo)

“foo … bar” — matches waves that contain the exact phrase “foo … bar” (There is an outstanding bug for live search not working with phrases)

foo & (bar | -baz) — matches waves that contain foo and either bar or do not contain baz.

Phrases

“[multiple terms]” — match waves with one or more terms in sequence. E.g. “hot dog” catches waves with the terms hot and dog in sequence. This is also required for other operators such as in:”new inbox” where say “new inbox” is a saved search.

XML Search

tags:subtag — find all waves which have this <tag><subtag> combination.

tag:[tag] — find all waves which have this <tag>.

attribute:[value keyword] — finds all waves which have < …. attribute=value …> where keyword is a token in value.

Wave ID

id:”

Zero Inbox

If you want to zero inbox, you can hack this temporarily by saving a search “my inbox” with the query in:inbox is:unread this:week. You can then use the menu option “Mark as read” in the wave panel.

Alternative zero inbox: in:inbox is:unread past:7days -is:mail

Saved Searches

A search can be saved using one of two methods:

Create a search in the search box and then press the Save search button at the bottom of the Digest panel.

Add a search using the searches Add button on the Navigation panel. Then add the search query and name of the search in the Saved Search popup panel.

Saved searches can be edited and managed using the pop-up menu which shows when hovering over the saved search in the searches section of the Navigation panel.

Filters

Filters are saved searches which also have an action to apply to all waves which match the saved search. The actions supported are

skip inbox – removes the wave from inbox. Whilst this wave continues to match the search, it will continue to stay out of the inbox. Skip inbox will shortly be renamed archive.

mark as read – Whilst the wave continues to match the search, it will be marked as read.

Folders

You can add a folder by using the Add button on the folders section of the Navigation panel. A folder is added by typing the folder name in the text box given and hitting enter.

Folders can be managed using the pop-up menu that shows when hovering over the folder on the Navigation panel.

Add folder: A subfolder can be added under the current folder.

Rename – rename the current folder.

Delete – delete the current folder.

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