Advanced Searcher
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:32 pm
I'm not sure how much this idea is on your radar but I think the Advanced Search would benefit from the style of search you have with Thunderbird where you choose the field, an operator and enter (or select) the value, with some other enhancements.
However the key thing with this would be to have a 'Save' and 'Load' which would allow you to save the state you've set up as the standard set of fields you use and recall it at need, and so thereby customise the searcher to personal usage, since in reality we probably all have different fields we tend to use most the time and would ideally only see those as the initial offering and not the search fields we more rarely use (as is currently the case).
For example we might like to have a very simple setup of
Name - Contains - (value) - (casing options)
Path - Contains - (value) - (casing options)
Modified - At least -
Modified - At most -
Extensions - Any of -
and someone working with audio might choose various audio fields as their default search fields
Hope that makes sense in regards to usefulness. In theory you could also use it to Edit an existing search if it's a simple one though if you had bracketing and op options it could also edit more complex searches (I could mention thoughts on how I imagine that might work).
David
However the key thing with this would be to have a 'Save' and 'Load' which would allow you to save the state you've set up as the standard set of fields you use and recall it at need, and so thereby customise the searcher to personal usage, since in reality we probably all have different fields we tend to use most the time and would ideally only see those as the initial offering and not the search fields we more rarely use (as is currently the case).
For example we might like to have a very simple setup of
Name - Contains - (value) - (casing options)
Path - Contains - (value) - (casing options)
Modified - At least -
Modified - At most -
Extensions - Any of -
and someone working with audio might choose various audio fields as their default search fields
Hope that makes sense in regards to usefulness. In theory you could also use it to Edit an existing search if it's a simple one though if you had bracketing and op options it could also edit more complex searches (I could mention thoughts on how I imagine that might work).
David