Search bug in Mac 8.7?

Thanks, @jkratz. We do appreciate the feedback, and will keep working to improve.

Yeah so far so good. I'd prefer the main search go back to what it was ;). But I can deal for now.

Hi @jkratz, thanks for this!

The search and find features are indeed different here (search was present first, and we recently added the find feature to help with some of the use cases folks have been sharing with us). I hope this does provide a short-term solution for you, and we'll keep iterating on the search feature on our end. 👍

OK so this is interesting. If I just search in the search field it behaves like 1P_PeterG described. However, if I select anything in the left-hand pane (I have categories showing there), including All Items, and do Edit->Find it works like I expect it to. ie: if I search on "mailto:jason@blah.com" it matches that exactly. It seems to be finding what I expect but not really sure what fields that search looks thru. Its at least a workaround.

Thanks for the feedback, folks. I have appended your requests to our discussion of the search feature.

ref: dev/core/core#9056

+1 Also bringing back the old search.

+1 for bringing back the ‚old‘ way how search worked. Search should try to find what I have entered, no matter if it is a substring/part of o word. Furthermore it should not split search phrases on word boundaries that are than searched separately.

Well, it makes sense if thats how its supposed to work but it doesn't make sense ;) I was searching for a full email, not just part of one and thats not how the old search worked at all nor does it work that way in the web UI. So in this case i could be searching on mailto:jasonkratz@blah.com and get a list back that has absolutely nothing related like mailto:jason@thisiswrong.com. Thats not how proper search should work. I'd understand if I typed in the three bits separately but not a specific email.

Let me give a specific use case. I have an email that i used lots of places that I want to replace with another one (lets say the original is mailto:jasonkratz@blah.com). right now in this scenario I'm getting back like 56 results that have nothing to do with that email and maybe 3 that do. I just want 3 results to see how many i've got left. I don't want to have to crawl thru 56 other items looking to see if maybe it was an alternate email, or a saved web form field or something.

Hello @jkratz, thank you for the follow-up. This is expected given how search currently works, since it's searching multiple parts of the phrase:

jasonkratz + blah + com

rather than treating jasonkratz@blah.com as a monolithic unit. I hope that makes sense.

If you feel that this is detracting from the relevancy of your search results, let me know and I'll be happy to pass on that feedback. But I did want to let you know that this is consistent with the expected results of the search function at present.

Hi Peter, yes. It was only the first part...in this case jason@.