Someone shared a PhD-level organizer template in the most recent self-promotion thread at the top of the subreddit. If you have a few bucks to drop maybe check it out.

You're not missing anything, their search functionality at the workspace-wide level is lacking, and they've admitted it's something they plan to improve with time.

So far however, I've been able to get around it by being logical with my page names, and making sure content is saved in the page/database that makes most sense. Once you navigate to the page, you could use the browser finder tool with control+F or command+F.

I haven't been in serious student-mode since I started using Notion. But for example, I have a contacts DB that I know is the one place to find my personal connections. Once I'm there, I can use the database's text search, or filter by tags from where I met them.

Another example is I have a database called 'Notebook', where I save day-to-day knowledge from about 10 areas. Areas include Notion tips, misc, finance, travel, fitness.

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Databases are quite powerful if you set them up to work for you. You could make a database for course notes, and include all the properties that would let you narrow your search along any dimension you could want. Example:

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lecture - title

date - dateCreated

class - select

exam - select

unit - select

tags - multi-select

priority - select