Prioritizing search results

[adamweisman]

If you run a search for "Adam", Redfly is currently prioritizing notes over names. It may make sense to add a filter later on, so that users can filter search results (e.g. "company" "name" "tags" or "notes"). For now, if someone searches for Adam, people named Adam should show up first.

[justinTNT]

we used to prioritise names, then kwan requested we prioritise search results by number of tags, so that the first page didnt include matches for contacts we don't have much information about. I will have to look at sorting by type, then tag count

[kwantopia]

Yeap we are learning as we go. Sorting by type then tag count sounds like a good quick fix.

For future we'll have to figure out a UI for sort order (boxes with labels "company" "name" "tags" or "notes" that can be reorganized by drag and drop) , or have a prefixed query "name:Adam" or a drop down of "company" "name" "tags" or "notes".

• Prefix would be easiest to implement, but would require education
• The drop down would be most obvious to users but possibly and easy to use for users, but not necessarily elegant
• Reorganizable search filter would be interesting if initial search result didn't return the expected result and also gives flexibility to user to prioritize the results. Drag/drop ui is more complicated then above.

[justinTNT]

name:adam already works.

[adamweisman]

I see. It does make sense to prioritize contacts with populated profiles/tags/notes. I guess I just assumed there would be at least one "Adam" with a photo, job title, or tag.

Perhaps we should leave this how it is for now, and keep doing everything possible to populate contact info. Then we can worry about prioritizing in search.

Adam Weisman | Development Director Redstar Ventures | 617 767 3376 www.redstar.com . @adweis . Linkedin

On May 15, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Kwan Lee notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeap we are learning as we go. Sorting by type then tag count sounds like a good quick fix.

For future we'll have to figure out a UI for sort order (boxes with labels "company" "name" "tags" or "notes" that can be reorganized by drag and drop) , or have a prefixed query "name:Adam" or a drop down of "company" "name" "tags" or "notes".

Prefix would be easiest to implement, but would require education The drop down would be most obvious to users but possibly and easy to use for users, but not necessarily elegant Reorganizable search filter would be interesting if initial search result didn't return the expected result and also gives flexibility to user to prioritize the results. Drag/drop ui is more complicated then above. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.