diff --git a/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/BoardViewModel.kt b/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/BoardViewModel.kt
index eb7121e..a4d71fd 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/BoardViewModel.kt
+++ b/android/app/src/main/java/com/fabledsword/thoughtsync/ui/BoardViewModel.kt
@@ -472,9 +472,13 @@ class BoardViewModel(
      * correct-until-a-moment-ago content, and flashing it empty would be a worse
      * lie than showing it one frame stale.
      *
-     * Search results are left alone — they are the answer to a query, not a live
-     * view, and re-running the board query underneath them would replace the hits
-     * with the whole board.
+     * While a search is running the QUERY is re-run rather than the board's
+     * destination — running `load` here would replace the hits with the whole
+     * board, which is why this branch exists at all. It used to keep the existing
+     * list instead, and that was right for a note whose place in the pile changed
+     * and wrong for one that left it: trashing a hit left the card sitting there,
+     * with a snackbar saying it was gone, until the query happened to re-run
+     * (#3111). Re-asking is still the answer to the query, just a current one.
      */
     private fun mutate(
         closeEditor: Boolean = false,
@@ -486,10 +490,8 @@ class BoardViewModel(
                 try {
                     val updated = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { block(core) }
                     val notes =
-                        if (state.searching) {
-                            state.notes
-                        } else {
-                            withContext(Dispatchers.IO) { load(state.destination) }
+                        withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
+                            if (state.searching) core.searchNotes(state.query) else load(state.destination)
                         }
                     // On IO, not here: re-deriving the alarm reads every note
                     // that carries a reminder, and this line runs on the main