[Montana Harper]

I realize this is probably a really niche thing, but is there any way to search a notes field (e.g., notes attached to an author) for specific text? I want to build a custom column that shows me a check mark if particular text is included in an author note.

I have a number of custom columns built from other columns that do something similar, but since the notes aren't fields with lookup names, I'm not even sure if it's possible to do what I want. Currently I'm using a workaround that involves adding a specific tag to every book by an author whom I want to flag, but that's both time-consuming and easy to forget about when adding a new book, whereas if I can just make a single note for the author it would be so much easier.

TIA!