Search in Loomio

I do use search on both phone and computer. Often I simply enter a key word, which can lead to a long list being offered.
I do lose stuff on Loomio
I am reasonably "old hand"

thanks James! What kinds of things are you hoping to be able to get when you search?

Sorry to be vague but generally old posts that I suddenly want to recall. With so many discussions going on, it is hard to remember which discussion a certain post is residing.

Hey @matthewbartlett

I haven't used the search once. I'm not sure if it's just because I don't have heaps of discussions yet as I'm only just starting to use it with colleagues. I can see the value more with discovering other groups that I might want to engage with. Like the Loomio community. There is clearly a lot more threads happening so I imagine search will soon be needed for that. For discovery not so much for lost items.

FYI I've often searched for old threads on Loomio, but I swear I'm always in a mad rush when I do it and I never stop to think about the meta of how it (apparently) works. It has worked well for me generally. I'm pretty good at keyword based searches in general, and sometimes I remember the thread titles.

I figure an ideal search would enable the application of keywords as metadata tags, or at least some prioritization of the text in the Context box. (Maybe it already does?) Certainly, post titles deserve priority, but key words aren't always in the titles.

As it stands now, we weight several things in a thread when searching for it, with the thread title being the most heavily weighted, followed by content in the context, the proposals, and the comments (in that order)

We tweaked the weights of comments down a little recently, and thread title / context up, which was nice because I think some searches were getting overwhelmed with comment content (IE just because a 1000-comment thread has the word 'organisation' in it 100 times, doesn't mean it's more important than a thread entitled 'What's next for our organisation?'

Wow James that's great perspective thanks! I could've sworn Loomio search was better recently, but I imagine a lot of things. :)

Do you use it at all?

yes.

Does it do a good job of finding what you’re looking for?

no, the search almost never helps me find what i'm looking for.

What kinds of thing do you want to be able to search for?

i most often want to find old discussions bsaed on vague memories.

Do you lose stuff on Loomio?

yes, but if it's important i'll manually browse through the group discussions and that way find what i'm looking for.

I've not been using loomio for about a year, yet it looks great, the update is really nice. I'll let you know as I get back to doing stuff here. Thanks!

I would definitely use an "advanced search" option where you could search by author, date range, limit to certain groups/subgroups, etc.