Iām importing a number of outlines for speaking notes into Dynalist, and linking them up with various metadata (I put everything into a single document, Workflowy-style). My speaking notes follow this general format:
Title
Introduction
Something interesting
Something else interesting
Point 1
etc.
Naturally, I want to link to the titles. But the title is often comprised mainly of words that occur frequently within the document. When I go to add a link, I type [[ followed by the title. The trouble is, I often have to dig through the entire search results to find what I want because the top results will be items which merely contain all the words I typed.
I think the [[ search should first return exact substring matches, and then after that return the other matches. Thus, if Iām trying to link to a speech entitled āA Speech with a Common Titleā and I type [[a speech with a, I should first get a search based on "a speech with a" before a search for a speech with a. This would ensure that, in nearly every case, the thing I want to link to would be the top result.
If you just enter a plain search term, I believe exact matches are weighed more but not that more. If you want to search for exact match, try [["a speech with a". Itās the same syntax as described in the searchbox tips.
Thanks, Erica. You might want to double-check the matching weight, because it appears to me that exact matches arenāt weighed more at all. There have been many instances where Iāve seen the top several matches having the words scattered randomly throughout and had to scroll down quite some distance to find the first match which even had the words in the same order.
I can use quotes, but I still think it would be more intuitive to weigh exact matches higher, which doesnāt appear to me to be happening.