I thought modern gnote had a search provider already, why keeping this alive?

There two reasons : 1- Modern gnote (3.8+) indeed provides a search provider, but for some reason it won't work (bad install maybe) 2- When I get gnote's search provider working, it has ugly icons The gnote 3.8 (current) built-in search provider is a backport that has received minimum focus. Until 3.9 or 3.10 comes in community I will keep using my search provider which is working and has nicer pictures. And I thought other people may want to do the same, so I thought it could not harm to update this.