I hate the loss of the edit post button on this forum. I forgot a point: the actual steps are four, before you can enter your search term in $:/Advanced search:
1. Move from what you are doing in the story river, to the sidebar. 2. Resist the urge to do a regular search, and instead click $:/AdvancedSearch button. 3. Switch your attention back to the story river to view $:/AdvancedSearch. 4. Pick a tab 5. Then and only then can you enter your search string. Instead, what I am proposing is 1. Move from what you are doing in the story river, to the sidebar. 2. Enter search string in regular search bar **as step two, rather than step five** 3. Pick a tab and see results 4. Refine search string if needed On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 10:01:54 AM UTC-4 David Gifford wrote: > Hi everyone > > I am playing with the field-search plugin by PMario, and seeing how search > results for a simple search come up in tabs one can pick from. > > This made me wonder, why couldn't there be something similar: do a search > from the default searchbar, and have standard, system and shadow come up as > tabs? > > This seems like it would be much more intuitive for users: search, then > filter results. As it stands, $:/AdvancedSearch does the opposite: it makes > you pick a type of search (standard, system, shadow, filter) first, and > only then can you do the search. The search string you want to enter may or > may not stay in your short term memory while you are figuring out which > type of search you want to do. It seems like it would be a better user > experience to 'dump' the search term first, then figure out which tab you > want. > > On the same subject, Why is there no comparable "recent" tab for system > tiddlers? It seems like developers would benefit greatly having something > like that open as they work on macros, styling, buttons, etc. > > I would love to hear your input: > Do you agree with me? Why or why not? If so, should this be core pull > request or a plugin? > What are the reasons $:/AdvancedSearch is set up backwards? Technical > limitations? Workflow-related? > What are the ways you work around these limitations? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ba5c752c-a302-4307-8c0a-b861d1af6442n%40googlegroups.com.
