diff --git a/packages/api/src/elastic/pages.ts b/packages/api/src/elastic/pages.ts
index 538c272b9..c53f20551 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/elastic/pages.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/elastic/pages.ts
@@ -201,6 +201,19 @@ const appendMatchFilters = (
   filters: FieldFilter[]
 ): ESBuilder => {
   filters.forEach((filter) => {
+    if (filter.nested) {
+      // nested query
+      builder = builder.query('nested', {
+        path: filter.field.split('.')[0], // get the nested field name
+        query: {
+          match: {
+            [filter.field]: filter.value,
+          },
+        },
+      })
+      return
+    }
+
     builder = builder.query('match', {
       [filter.field]: filter.value,
     })
diff --git a/packages/api/src/utils/search.ts b/packages/api/src/utils/search.ts
index 7021e91df..737572bec 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/utils/search.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/utils/search.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ export interface SortParams {
 }
 
 export interface FieldFilter {
+  nested?: boolean
   field: string
   value: string
 }
@@ -260,10 +261,19 @@ const parseFieldFilter = (
     return undefined
   }
 
+  let nested = false
+  // normalize the term to lower case
+  const value = str.toLowerCase()
+
+  if (field === 'note') {
+    field = 'highlights.annotation'
+    nested = true
+  }
+
   return {
+    nested,
     field,
-    // normalize the term to lower case
-    value: str.toLowerCase(),
+    value,
   }
 }
 
@@ -343,6 +353,7 @@ export const parseSearchQuery = (query: string | undefined): SearchFilter => {
       'no',
       'mode',
       'site',
+      'note',
     ],
     tokenize: true,
   })
@@ -414,6 +425,7 @@ export const parseSearchQuery = (query: string | undefined): SearchFilter => {
         case 'author':
         case 'title':
         case 'description':
+        case 'note':
         case 'content': {
           const fieldFilter = parseFieldFilter(keyword.keyword, keyword.value)
           fieldFilter && result.matchFilters.push(fieldFilter)