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scrod / nv

Notational Velocity: modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application
http://notational.net
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Open tewe opened 13 years ago

tewe commented 13 years ago

Currently NV can't restrict searches to titles or tags. It also doesn't rank matches in titles higher than matches in the body. Above a certain number of notes this becomes a problem.

scrod commented 13 years ago

Restricting search by tag is already a planned feature, as I mentioned in several other tag-related issues.

Regarding selective ranking, this is was my original plan for Notational Velocity, but I ended up never really needing it. Do you have more than 1700 notes? Because I don't think it's been much of a problem for me.

tewe commented 13 years ago

I have 5000 in another application that I'm slowly moving over. I noticed it after 150 since I recently bought an iPad, so many have App Store URLs in them. Now try searching for the note on iTunes...

alexbepple commented 13 years ago

Same experience here: I have 4000+ notes. Finding some of them in NV becomes a challenge. Parts of URLs are a huge problem, say Lifehacker and Wikipedia. But also topics that I mention in tons of notes.

johnnypoll commented 13 years ago

This would greatly help me (without needing to add any features, just improve the search):

Prioritise search within titles, so notes with titles containing my search strings come before those where only the content contains the search string.

Prioritise position of the string within the title, so first list notes that have my string earlier in the title. Hence if I search for iTunes, I know that all my notes that start with that word will appear together at the top of the results.

Where I enter two search words, prioritise notes with titles again that have both words, then notes where one of the matches is in the title and last of all the matches that only have my search strings in the content of the note.

Funnily enough SimpleNote suffers from the same issues with searches. The search does seem absolutely core to this product so a good search will win over many users I feel.

Many thanks for a great app. John

robertpolson commented 12 years ago

+1