âFile finderâ for searching documents and bookmarks makes sense.
âItem finderâ for searching just âitemsâ (tags, etc.), but excluding documents from results would make sense.
âItem finderâ for searching both items and documents doesnât make sense for me. As the name states, it should search just for âitemsâ.
As âitem finderâ is implemented, listing both items and documents, the âfile finderâ became a bit useless. In that case to have an all-in-one search makes sense (unification of file finder + item finder in a single tool).
I was trying to explain to a colleague who just started using Dynalist (coming from Workflowy) the three available searches (four searches including the global search - ctrl+enter). She got a bit confused, finding difficult to make sense of all these searches, and the overlap of âitem finderâ and âfile finderâ both searching documents didnât help her sense making!
IMO, I donât see problem on having all these searchers, since they create different levels of specialized searches. But a boundary should be set to âitem finderâ, in order documents arenât listed there anymore, and since just items are listed, it would be even easier to select from the search result (I wouldnât be concerned to differentiate if the result is a document or an item). This way I could explain to my colleague easier:
- Use document search âctrl+Fâ to locate items in the opened document;
- Use global search âctrl+enterâ to expand the search for all Dynalist items;
- Use item finder âctrl+shift+Oâ to perform a fast global search for Dynalist items (only)
- Use file finder âctrl+Oâ to search for documents and bookmarks from the left panes