Search documentation may be incorrect re: default AND

[ariehen]

I feel this comes up every few months and always forget how it works.

I’ll just leave these here for now.

Better search result order

Use case or problem When I search my vault for software should be, I get a lot of results for “best,” “been,” “be,” “better,” etc. This is obviously nothing like what I was looking for. I have a note with that exact text in it, but I can’t get it to come up (without scrolling through who knows how many results, I guess) without putting quotes around the search term. Proposed solution Default AND search. Google was the first to do this in Internet searches, leading to it replacing all previou…

Sort search results by relevance (and what relevance is)

There were more suggestions as to how to present search results. I suggest having option to sort by relevance. It would solve more feature requests - see below. What relevance might mean - I suggest it encompasses following and in following order (which is of course subject of further discussion): filename (if searched word is found in filename, it is definitely highest relevance and should be presented first - it is default functionality in apps like Notational Velocity etc) - (more this for…

Search defaults to OR instead of AND?

Search default to AND. You are confused by how results are counted (over filenames and content and by block)