Nobody remembers files by filename. You remember "the drone shot of the coastline" or "the part where I talk about pricing" — not DJI_0432. Soontra's search is built to match the way your memory already works: describe the thing, and land on it.
Ask for what you mean, not the filename
Type what you remember into the Drive search bar and press Enter. Soontra searches by meaning as well as by exact words, so "where I talk about money" can surface the clip where you actually said "our pricing." It covers what was said, what appeared on screen, and what was happening — so you can find a B-roll sunset with no narration just by describing it.
Results are moments
Search doesn't return a pile of file names; it returns moments. Each result knows exactly where it lives: click a video match and the player opens already cued to that second; click a document match and it opens to the right page. A two-hour stream is useless as a result — the moment inside it where you said the thing is what comes back.
Quick name filter vs full semantic search
The same search bar does two jobs:
- As you type, Drive filters file and folder names instantly — the fastest path when you already know what the file is called.
- Press Enter to run the full semantic search across the content inside your files.
Search from anywhere
The Drive search bar is the front door, but it isn't the only way in. Astrono searches the same understood library you do — ask it "pull up the part where I mention the giveaway" in chat and it finds the same precise moments, then cites them so you can jump straight in. See Meet Astrono.
Limits
You can run up to 30 searches per minute — far more than normal use ever needs, but worth knowing if you're firing off queries in rapid succession. If you hit the limit, wait a moment and search again.
When you want a shorter, sharper result list, point search at a slice of your workspace instead of all of it — that's covered in scopes and filters.