Search a Keychain Secure Note?

I keep a lot of personal info stored in a secure note within a keychain. I'd like to be able to search that info to find items quickly but haven't discovered a way to do it. Am I missing something?

I must not have explained myself correctly. I want to be able to open the secure note and then search the text (like you can in word processing programs, browsers, etc.) Say I have a note with 100 lines of text. I'd like to open the note and then perform a search for specific text, e.g., "swiss bank", or "CIA Passwords", etc.

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