diff --git a/assets/search.html b/assets/search.html
index 17da7ed..d126801 100644
--- a/assets/search.html
+++ b/assets/search.html
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
             </nav>
             <form class="search-form" action="/" method="get">
                 <input class="search-input" type="search" name="q" value="{{.Query}}" placeholder="Search folders…" autofocus />
+                <label class="search-toggle muted" title="Also search page contents">
+                    <input type="checkbox" name="full" value="1" {{if .Full}}checked{{end}} />
+                    full-text
+                </label>
                 <button class="btn" type="submit">GO</button>
             </form>
         </header>
@@ -27,8 +31,13 @@
                     <div class="listing-header">{{len .Results}} match{{if ne (len .Results) 1}}es{{end}} for &ldquo;{{.Query}}&rdquo;</div>
                     {{range .Results}}
                     <div class="listing-item">
-                        <a href="{{.URL}}">{{.Name}}</a>
-                        <span class="meta">{{.Path}}</span>
+                        <div class="search-result">
+                            <div class="search-result-row">
+                                <a href="{{.URL}}">{{.Name}}</a>
+                                <span class="meta">{{.Path}}</span>
+                            </div>
+                            {{if .Snippet}}<div class="search-snippet muted">{{.Snippet}}</div>{{end}}
+                        </div>
                     </div>
                     {{end}}
                 </div>
diff --git a/assets/style.css b/assets/style.css
index e3f1dbd..b66d0df 100644
--- a/assets/style.css
+++ b/assets/style.css
@@ -379,6 +379,38 @@ textarea {
 .search-input:focus {
     border-color: var(--primary-hover);
 }
+.search-toggle {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+    gap: 0.25rem;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.search-result {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    gap: 0.2rem;
+    flex: 1;
+    min-width: 0;
+}
+.search-result-row {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+    gap: 0.75rem;
+    min-width: 0;
+}
+.search-result-row a {
+    flex: 1;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.search-snippet {
+    font-size: 0.8rem;
+    line-height: 1.4;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    text-overflow: ellipsis;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+}
 
 /* === Muted text === */
 .muted {
diff --git a/search.go b/search.go
index 0360e92..45af473 100644
--- a/search.go
+++ b/search.go
@@ -5,14 +5,17 @@ import (
 	"io/fs"
 	"log"
 	"net/http"
+	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
+	"unicode"
 )
 
 var searchTmpl = template.Must(template.New("search.html").ParseFS(assets, "assets/search.html"))
 
-// Match ranks. Lower is better.
+// Match ranks. Lower is better. Used for folder-name search (Phase 1).
 const (
 	rankExact     = 0
 	rankPrefix    = 1
@@ -21,26 +24,37 @@ const (
 )
 
 type searchResult struct {
-	Name string
-	URL  string
-	Path string
-	Rank int
+	Name    string
+	URL     string
+	Path    string
+	Rank    int    // Phase 1 only
+	Score   int    // Phase 2: number of query tokens that hit
+	NameHit bool   // Phase 2: at least one hit came from the folder name
+	Snippet string // Phase 2: ~100 chars around first body hit
 }
 
 type searchPageData struct {
 	Query   string
+	Full    bool
 	Results []searchResult
 }
 
 // handleSearch walks the wiki root and renders a search results page for the
 // query in r.URL.Query().Get("q"). Only invoked when path is "/" and "q" is
-// present.
+// present. With ?full=1 it also scans index.md bodies (Phase 2).
 func (h *handler) handleSearch(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	query := strings.TrimSpace(r.URL.Query().Get("q"))
-	results := searchFolders(h.root, query)
+	full := r.URL.Query().Get("full") == "1"
+
+	var results []searchResult
+	if full {
+		results = searchFull(h.root, query)
+	} else {
+		results = searchFolders(h.root, query)
+	}
 
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
-	if err := searchTmpl.Execute(w, searchPageData{Query: query, Results: results}); err != nil {
+	if err := searchTmpl.Execute(w, searchPageData{Query: query, Full: full, Results: results}); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("search template error: %v", err)
 	}
 }
@@ -57,28 +71,19 @@ func searchFolders(root, query string) []searchResult {
 		maxDist = 3
 	}
 
-	// Resolve symlinks so WalkDir descends into the real tree even when the
-	// configured wiki root is itself a symlink (as on the deployed NAS).
-	walkRoot, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(root)
-	if err != nil {
-		walkRoot = root
-	}
-
+	walkRoot := resolveWalkRoot(root)
 	var results []searchResult
 	_ = filepath.WalkDir(walkRoot, func(fsPath string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil
 		}
-		name := d.Name()
-		if strings.HasPrefix(name, ".") {
-			if d.IsDir() && fsPath != root {
-				return filepath.SkipDir
-			}
-			return nil
+		if skip, walkErr := hiddenSkip(fsPath, walkRoot, d); skip {
+			return walkErr
 		}
 		if !d.IsDir() || fsPath == walkRoot {
 			return nil
 		}
+		name := d.Name()
 		rank, ok := matchRank(strings.ToLower(name), q, maxDist)
 		if !ok {
 			return nil
@@ -87,10 +92,9 @@ func searchFolders(root, query string) []searchResult {
 		if relErr != nil {
 			return nil
 		}
-		urlPath := "/" + filepath.ToSlash(rel) + "/"
 		results = append(results, searchResult{
 			Name: name,
-			URL:  urlPath,
+			URL:  "/" + filepath.ToSlash(rel) + "/",
 			Path: filepath.ToSlash(rel),
 			Rank: rank,
 		})
@@ -106,6 +110,105 @@ func searchFolders(root, query string) []searchResult {
 	return results
 }
 
+// searchFull walks root and scores each directory by how many whitespace-split
+// query tokens hit a word in either the folder name or its index.md body.
+// A word "hits" a token via case-insensitive equality or Levenshtein ≤ 2.
+// Folder-name hits break score ties above content-only hits.
+func searchFull(root, query string) []searchResult {
+	if query == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	qTokens := tokenize(query)
+	if len(qTokens) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	walkRoot := resolveWalkRoot(root)
+	var results []searchResult
+	_ = filepath.WalkDir(walkRoot, func(fsPath string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil
+		}
+		if skip, walkErr := hiddenSkip(fsPath, walkRoot, d); skip {
+			return walkErr
+		}
+		if !d.IsDir() || fsPath == walkRoot {
+			return nil
+		}
+		name := d.Name()
+		body, _ := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(fsPath, "index.md"))
+
+		nameWords := tokenize(name)
+		bodyStr := string(body)
+		bodyLower := strings.ToLower(bodyStr)
+		bodyWords := tokenize(bodyLower)
+
+		score := 0
+		nameHit := false
+		for _, qt := range qTokens {
+			inName := tokenInWords(qt, nameWords)
+			inBody := tokenInWords(qt, bodyWords)
+			if inName || inBody {
+				score++
+			}
+			if inName {
+				nameHit = true
+			}
+		}
+		if score == 0 {
+			return nil
+		}
+
+		rel, relErr := filepath.Rel(walkRoot, fsPath)
+		if relErr != nil {
+			return nil
+		}
+		results = append(results, searchResult{
+			Name:    name,
+			URL:     "/" + filepath.ToSlash(rel) + "/",
+			Path:    filepath.ToSlash(rel),
+			Score:   score,
+			NameHit: nameHit,
+			Snippet: makeSnippet(bodyStr, bodyLower, qTokens),
+		})
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	sort.SliceStable(results, func(i, j int) bool {
+		if results[i].Score != results[j].Score {
+			return results[i].Score > results[j].Score
+		}
+		if results[i].NameHit != results[j].NameHit {
+			return results[i].NameHit
+		}
+		return strings.ToLower(results[i].Name) < strings.ToLower(results[j].Name)
+	})
+	return results
+}
+
+// resolveWalkRoot resolves symlinks so WalkDir descends into the real tree
+// even when the configured wiki root is itself a symlink (as on the NAS).
+func resolveWalkRoot(root string) string {
+	if r, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(root); err == nil {
+		return r
+	}
+	return root
+}
+
+// hiddenSkip handles dotfile/dot-dir entries during a WalkDir. It returns
+// (skipped, walkErr): skipped=true means the caller should `return walkErr`
+// to either prune the subtree (hidden dir) or move past the entry (hidden
+// file). When skipped=false the entry should be processed normally.
+func hiddenSkip(fsPath, walkRoot string, d fs.DirEntry) (bool, error) {
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(d.Name(), ".") {
+		return false, nil
+	}
+	if d.IsDir() && fsPath != walkRoot {
+		return true, filepath.SkipDir
+	}
+	return true, nil
+}
+
 // matchRank returns the best (lowest) rank for which name matches q, or
 // (0, false) if no rule matches. Inputs are expected to be lowercased.
 func matchRank(name, q string, maxDist int) (int, bool) {
@@ -124,6 +227,86 @@ func matchRank(name, q string, maxDist int) (int, bool) {
 	return 0, false
 }
 
+// tokenize splits s into lowercase word tokens, breaking on any rune that is
+// not a letter or digit. Unicode-aware so umlauts etc. survive intact.
+func tokenize(s string) []string {
+	var tokens []string
+	var b strings.Builder
+	for _, r := range s {
+		if unicode.IsLetter(r) || unicode.IsDigit(r) {
+			b.WriteRune(unicode.ToLower(r))
+			continue
+		}
+		if b.Len() > 0 {
+			tokens = append(tokens, b.String())
+			b.Reset()
+		}
+	}
+	if b.Len() > 0 {
+		tokens = append(tokens, b.String())
+	}
+	return tokens
+}
+
+// tokenInWords reports whether qt matches any word exactly or within
+// Levenshtein distance 2. qt and words must already be lowercase.
+func tokenInWords(qt string, words []string) bool {
+	for _, w := range words {
+		if w == qt {
+			return true
+		}
+		if levenshtein(w, qt) <= 2 {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+var snippetWS = regexp.MustCompile(`\s+`)
+
+// makeSnippet returns ~100 characters of body around the earliest substring
+// match of any query token. Falls back to empty when no token appears as a
+// substring (a token may have hit only via Levenshtein, with no exact span to
+// quote).
+func makeSnippet(body, bodyLower string, tokens []string) string {
+	pos := -1
+	for _, t := range tokens {
+		i := strings.Index(bodyLower, t)
+		if i < 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		if pos < 0 || i < pos {
+			pos = i
+		}
+	}
+	if pos < 0 {
+		return ""
+	}
+	start := pos - 50
+	if start < 0 {
+		start = 0
+	}
+	end := pos + 50
+	if end > len(body) {
+		end = len(body)
+	}
+	for start > 0 && body[start]&0xC0 == 0x80 {
+		start--
+	}
+	for end < len(body) && body[end]&0xC0 == 0x80 {
+		end++
+	}
+	s := snippetWS.ReplaceAllString(body[start:end], " ")
+	s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
+	if start > 0 {
+		s = "…" + s
+	}
+	if end < len(body) {
+		s = s + "…"
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
 // levenshtein returns the edit distance between a and b. Operates on runes so
 // multi-byte characters count as one edit.
 func levenshtein(a, b string) int {