diff --git a/packages/backend/migration/1749229288946-create-IDX_note_url.js b/packages/backend/migration/1749229288946-create-IDX_note_url.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4b2fc25cf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/backend/migration/1749229288946-create-IDX_note_url.js
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: hazelnoot and other Sharkey contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+ */
+
+export class CreateIDXNoteUrl1749229288946 {
+	name = 'CreateIDXNoteUrl1749229288946'
+
+	async up(queryRunner) {
+		await queryRunner.query(`CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS "IDX_note_url" ON "note" ("url") `);
+	}
+
+	async down(queryRunner) {
+		await queryRunner.query(`DROP INDEX "public"."IDX_note_url"`);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/models/Note.ts b/packages/backend/src/models/Note.ts
index 90b874f29a..bbe183cfbb 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/models/Note.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/models/Note.ts
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ export class MiNote {
 	})
 	public uri: string | null;
 
+	@Index('IDX_note_url')
 	@Column('varchar', {
 		length: 512, nullable: true,
 		comment: 'The human readable url of a note. it will be null when the note is local.',