diff --git a/src/public/app/widgets/search_options/limit.js b/src/public/app/widgets/search_options/limit.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28af4a2db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/public/app/widgets/search_options/limit.js
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import AbstractSearchOption from "./abstract_search_option.js";
+
+const TPL = `
+<tr data-search-option-conf="limit">
+    <td class="title-column">
+        <span class="bx bx-stop"></span>
+    
+        Limit
+    </td>
+    <td>
+        <input name="limit" class="form-control" type="number" min="1" step="1" />
+    </td>
+    <td class="button-column">
+        <div class="dropdown help-dropdown">
+            <span class="bx bx-help-circle icon-action" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"></span>
+            <div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right p-4">
+                Take only first X specified results.
+            </div> 
+        </div>
+    
+        <span class="bx bx-x icon-action search-option-del"></span>
+    </td>
+</tr>`;
+
+export default class Limit extends AbstractSearchOption {
+    static get optionName() { return "limit" };
+    static get attributeType() { return "label" };
+
+    static async create(noteId) {
+        await AbstractSearchOption.setAttribute(noteId, 'label', 'limit', '10');
+    }
+
+    doRender() {
+        const $option = $(TPL);
+
+        this.$limit = $option.find('input[name=limit]');
+        this.$limit.on('change', () => this.update());
+        this.$limit.on('input', () => this.update());
+        this.$limit.val(this.note.getLabelValue('limit'));
+
+        return $option;
+    }
+
+    async update() {
+        const limit = this.$limit.val();
+
+        await this.setAttribute('label', 'limit', limit);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/public/app/widgets/type_property_widgets/search_definition.js b/src/public/app/widgets/type_property_widgets/search_definition.js
index 4df0cef68..66c64d6b4 100644
--- a/src/public/app/widgets/type_property_widgets/search_definition.js
+++ b/src/public/app/widgets/type_property_widgets/search_definition.js
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import Ancestor from "../search_options/ancestor.js";
 import IncludeArchivedNotes from "../search_options/include_archived_notes.js";
 import OrderBy from "../search_options/order_by.js";
 import SearchScript from "../search_options/search_script.js";
+import Limit from "../search_options/limit.js";
 
 const TPL = `
 <div class="search-definition-widget">
@@ -106,6 +107,11 @@ const TPL = `
                         order by
                     </button>
                     
+                    <button type="button" class="btn btn-sm" data-search-option-add="limit" title="Limit number of results">
+                        <span class="bx bx-stop"></span>
+                        limit
+                    </button>
+                    
                     <div class="dropdown" style="display: inline-block;">
                       <button class="btn btn-sm dropdown-toggle action-add-toggle" type="button" id="dropdownMenuButton" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
                         <span class="bx bxs-zap"></span>
@@ -163,7 +169,8 @@ const OPTION_CLASSES = [
     Ancestor,
     FastSearch,
     IncludeArchivedNotes,
-    OrderBy
+    OrderBy,
+    Limit
 ];
 
 const ACTION_CLASSES = {};
diff --git a/src/routes/api/search.js b/src/routes/api/search.js
index d5969afac..a1cb883c2 100644
--- a/src/routes/api/search.js
+++ b/src/routes/api/search.js
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ async function search(note) {
             includeArchivedNotes: note.hasLabel('includeArchivedNotes'),
             orderBy: note.getLabelValue('orderBy'),
             orderDirection: note.getLabelValue('orderDirection'),
+            limit: note.getLabelValue('limit'),
             fuzzyAttributeSearch: false
         });
 
diff --git a/src/services/search/expressions/order_by_and_limit.js b/src/services/search/expressions/order_by_and_limit.js
index 28f5cc6b5..80f08ab2e 100644
--- a/src/services/search/expressions/order_by_and_limit.js
+++ b/src/services/search/expressions/order_by_and_limit.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class OrderByAndLimitExp extends Expression {
             od.larger = od.direction === "asc" ? 1 : -1;
         }
 
-        this.limit = limit;
+        this.limit = limit || 0;
 
         /** @type {Expression} */
         this.subExpression = null; // it's expected to be set after construction
diff --git a/src/services/search/search_context.js b/src/services/search/search_context.js
index 864878bae..5d7a794dd 100644
--- a/src/services/search/search_context.js
+++ b/src/services/search/search_context.js
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ class SearchContext {
         this.includeArchivedNotes = !!params.includeArchivedNotes;
         this.orderBy = params.orderBy;
         this.orderDirection = params.orderDirection;
+        this.limit = params.limit;
         this.fuzzyAttributeSearch = !!params.fuzzyAttributeSearch;
         this.highlightedTokens = [];
         this.originalQuery = "";
diff --git a/src/services/search/services/parse.js b/src/services/search/services/parse.js
index 1cf0982ac..fa1b3cc34 100644
--- a/src/services/search/services/parse.js
+++ b/src/services/search/services/parse.js
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ function parse({fulltextTokens, expressionTokens, searchContext}) {
         exp = new OrderByAndLimitExp([{
             valueExtractor: new ValueExtractor(searchContext, ['note', searchContext.orderBy]),
             direction: searchContext.orderDirection
-        }], 0);
+        }], searchContext.limit);
 
         exp.subExpression = filterExp;
     }