Is there some way to limit the results? As it stands now I often have trouble finding relevant results.
Could you elaborate a bit, Kerim, ideally with examples? No way to limit results (at least that I know of) but with more details I might be able to make a suggestion and/or ask the team.
I think he means that he doesnāt want the search to return results of which the word he typed in is a substring but explicitly only that word.
Thatās right. I do work on education so I have hundreds of documents with āteachingā in the title which makes it impossible for me to find the one document about tea drinking culture unless I can remember more about that title (which I donāt). In the end I had to search for it all over again via Google and then after locating it give it the tag ātea.ā However for this workaround to work I would need to anticipate all titles for which this could be a problem and tag them in advance of having the problem, which seems ridiculous for a research tool. It would be much better if I could limit my search to whole word matches only.
I run into this problem too. Itās also a problem in the Find function within a paper. It doesnāt recognize a space as a character. If it did, "tea " would not return āteacherā. But right now, adding a space isnāt a workaround.
I use DocFetcher for full text indexing and advanced search/filtering of my reference library.
http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/de/index.html
For that Iāve set up an index for the āAll Papersā directory.
In DocFetcher you can then use search filters like āteaā AND ātemperatureā OR āsugarā to filter results.
If you put search strings in quotes, itāll only look for those full words.
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Thanks for the details (@Daniel and @captglasspac as well). Iāve switched this to āFeature requestā for other users to add their +1 so the team can consider over future reviews. Searches are a tricky topic which we have yet to optimize, but itās on the roadmap and hopefully weāll be able to prioritize it soon.
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Related to some other search improvements I suggested a couple of years ago and which have been mentioned in other threads.
Progressive search simply isnāt very efficient for a number of standard use cases. Field targeting and advanced search operators are essential features for the future, IMO.
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Ugh. Now Iām trying to find a work by the famous scholar Aihwa Ong and Paperpile gives me several hundred hits for articles with the word āongoingā in the abstractā¦
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Iāve changed the status to āstartedā as we have been working on search improvements for quite some time now.
Please remind me in January, I can share a public preview version of our new search interface for testing. It will allow you to search specific fields and to look up authors.
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Looking forward to seeing the search improvements! Thank you for your hard work.