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Contextual Chat Search

Feature Request

When performing a search within the chat interface, make search not only through thread titles, but also the thread content, just like it in chatgpt. Additionally, when a user clicks on a specific search result, they should be taken directly to the relevant part of the conversation where the matching content appears, rather than being taken to the end of the chat or the beginning of the conversation.

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  • Tomato Cucumber

    I found this post because I wanted to suggest it myself. It would really be useful to be able to search inside threads. Sometimes the titles do not reflect everything that’s inside a thread and I just remember some key words I used during a chat.

    • Aqua Toast

      Same here

  • Red Matchbox

    I just spent the last hour looking for a very specific thread that had a very unique piece of text. I finally found it and I really wished that we could have a better functioning search engine. Please implement/improve the search functionality!

  • Moccasin Thicket

    For reals man, It happenes so damn often that I just do the same question again, even though I know I already have a thread for this, but the search function is really really bad.

  • Sapphire Lynx

    THIS!
    also because the search itself is broken. Search only works with the entire Phrase be the same as in the title.
    This drives me NUTS!

  • Apricot Honey

    +1 on this, as the usage has grown, searching the chat text (not just title) has become essential.
    I see the tag In Progress, @Mark Florkowski is there any update or approx timeline you can kindly share on this feature. Thank you very much in advance!

  • Amber Beach

    I agree. I believe a semantic search using text embedding would be nice. Similar to this plugin on obsidian.

    https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections

    Currently i have to save the url to my own notes to remember the conversation once it gets lost in the search.

  • Purple Oasis

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    Merged request

    Weird search behavior

    I’m confused as to how search works. When I type rdr, I expect both rdr and rdr2 to be returned. So it seems to search for whole words, rather than fuzzy search.

    Same deal here. But then when I start removing letters it does keep showing the partial search result.

    But then below it does seem to be doing a fuzzy search… but also it searches for independent words it seems, rather than the full query.

    It would be nice if rdr returns both rdr and rdr2 and power surge returns power surge and power surges, but not power(s) or surge(s) independently.

    Also when typing something that doesn’t return any results, I kind of expect it to show some sort of a not found state. Hope this helps thank you so much!

    • Blush Cascade

      I understand that the search functionality is crucial, and while I don't use it frequently, my experience has consistently been inconsistent and unintuitive.

      As other users have already pointed out, I believe that adding feedback messages would be extremely valuable. Phrases like 'No results found' or 'Searching threads...' would prevent the uncertainty and frustration of not knowing whether the search is failing or just taking time.

      Today, when attempting to use the search, I noticed that it initially appeared completely inoperable, returning no results for any query, even for my recent or pinned chats:

      Curiously, just as I was about to document the failure with more captures, the functionality suddenly began to work. This intermittent behavior reinforces the need for clear visual feedback on the search status.

      The Cmd+K shortcut seems to exhibit the same problem. Initially, it showed no results and took a while to sync. Even after the sidebar search started working again, the Cmd+K search remained unresponsive for a while before suddenly beginning to work.

      In summary, the introduction of status indicators (such as 'Loading threads' or 'No threads found') would resolve the current ambiguity and significantly improve the usability and perceived stability of the search functionality.

    • Magenta Andromeda

      I am going to add to this comment rather than post something new, but I came to understand some of the odd behaviour i was noticing while using the search feature that hopefully can be resolved.
      My current understanding of how text input is handled for search is as follows.

      (numbering indicates the number of characters entered into the search field)

      1. do nothing, display the entire list of chats chronologically

      2. same as 0.

      3. same as 0.

      4. all chats removed from list unless an exact 3 letter word is matched

      5. begin matching against partial strings as well as whole words

      6. (and onward) same as 4.

      Caveat: The above holds EXCEPT for when a whole word can be matched against the entered text. This will match to words like ‘we’ or individual characters like ‘a’ (or ‘c’ when asking about programming). Additionally, the search presumably treats punctuation as a word boundary in all cases, so searching for a single character ‘s’ will return results that are matching to the ‘s’ of a word (noun) written in possessive case (ie. Theo’s)

  • Plum Grove

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    Merged request

    Search doesn't work

    I always make sure to put WP in my chats to kinda “sort” chats. Now I found out I can’t quickly find all of them because Seatch Input requires ~3 symbols minimum.

    • Purple Telescope

      not only 3 symbols, but doesn’t work at all for me…

  • Rose Stapler

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    Merged request

    Help me find an topic/conversation within our history (not just a search bar)

    Eventually you will end up with a bunch of messages. Eventually you will remember pieces of a conversation you had and want to trace back but the title is not helping and you don’t remember keywords or pieces to trace back.

    Implementation:
    1. Me human, me dumb, me forget.
    2. I don’t need a simple search bar, if I remembered I wouldn’t need this feature in the first place.
    3. I need a place where I can make a prompt such as “Hey, remember when we discussed about x topic? I can’t remember where” and get redirected to the chats
    4. I probably talked about similar topics on different chats, I will probably need a list with possible chats
    5. Ideally I would have an confidence indicator that would say “is probably this you dum dum human”
    6. Nice UX duh.

  • Silver Milkshake

    +1 on this. It would be really helpful to have full-text search on results as well as titles. Just now I said “I’d really like to fork that chat that suggested Eleanor Rigby.”