diff --git a/scripts/generate.py b/scripts/generate.py
index 6c990c0..2ca6882 100644
--- a/scripts/generate.py
+++ b/scripts/generate.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def create_db(path):
         os.unlink(path)
 
     db = sqlite3.connect(path)
-    db.execute('CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE note_search USING fts5(note_id, title, body, top_level_title, is_done, is_todo);')
+    db.execute('CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE note_search USING fts5(note_id, title, body, top_level_title, is_done, is_todo, tokenize="trigram");')
     return db
 
 def load_all(top_dir_relative):