I get tired of users taking potshots at the search and end up sounding as if I am more pleased with the search than I actually am. Over the years there have been some concrete suggestions that get lost in the grousing. For example, some that I remember:
- the use of multiple kinds of brackets make the search more complex -- switch to a single format
- the hidden perimeters in the panel menu need to be visible
- the span of the text scanned is hidden in the search type -- make it visible rather than esoteric knowledge
- make the boolean operator notation and the list notation work the same way when combined into more complex arguments
- make the clause level search elements useable in a Bible-basic-morphology search
- add more templates and/or reinstate the cookbook format so that many more potential tags are offered
- centralize documentation
- build a search argument builder that, at a minimum, ensures that the syntax is valid
- allow tool-tip translation for some operators (NEAR, WITHIN) and keywords
- clarify what resources are coded with what FL tags
- allow text searches to recognize alternative spellings and names (especially in geographic names)
- allow users to save their more complex searches as templates
- support regular expressions for the expert original languages scholar
- support the wildcards by making them efficient enough for use
- integrate Bible Browser and Factbook as explicit alternatives to a search
Before Faithlife has determined what all will be in Logos 10, let's let FL know what concrete improvements we really want in L10's search. Not meaningless "fix it", "simplify it", "improve it" but concrete suggestions we can see that they did or did not do.
