Hi Mat,

Inspired by the work of Alberto Molina (I can't find a link at the moment), 
I extended the standard search with 4 categories:

* Tags starting with:
* Tiddler titles starting with:
* Tiddler titles containing:
* Tiddlers containing:

For a working example see [1]

Cheers,

Ton

[1] http://tw5custom.tiddlyspot.com/


On Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:29:11 PM UTC+1, Mat wrote:
>
> I suggest to prioritize based on title in search and for tag adding:
>
> If I understand it correctly, search searches on titles, tags and text, 
> and presents the results alphabetically. This also goes for when you add 
> tags by typing the first few letters in the "add tag" field. I think it 
> would make sense to at least prioritize titles that start with the search 
> string. I find I must often "search the search", ie my eyes must scan the 
> resulting list to find the title I'm looking for.
>
> It is true you may not always search for the very tiddler whose start of 
> the title match the search string, but the number of titles that start with 
> the search string typically diminish very quickly as you type. If you, on 
> tw.com, type "je" you get 84 matches but there are only two items, 
> JeremyRuston and Jermolene, that start out with the search string. Thus, 
> even if you're actually NOT searching for any of those two items then there 
> are merely two of them in the otherwise very long list so putting them on 
> top would matter little. On the other hand I would think that you quite 
> often DO search for titles that start with the search string in which case 
> getting them on top would quickify things a lot. Type 1-3 letters and you 
> pretty much got it.
>
> <:-)
>

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