Search across all my stuff
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Leanne Waldal
I thought that Dash would search across all of my stuff for all the accounts I connected and then show all of it (for my search query) in a list that I could filter. However, what I see instead are options to search each source individually, not in aggregate. So far I haven't experienced the value prop of easily searching across all my stuff.
Latif Rajpoot
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Leon Lin
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Leanne Waldal
Leon Lin: thank you!
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Leon Lin
Hi Leanne,
Dash should be searching across all the accounts you've connected, when it's working correctly. For example, see the below where it's looking across my dropbox, google, and local files.
Could I check if this is a case where search results are slow to load? I can bring this up to the team if we can troubleshoot the root cause.
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Leanne Waldal
Leon Lin: Yes it searches across accounts but doesn't display results in a useful way:
(1) I can't see the whole list at once and I expected this product to show me search results in the browser window (similar to searching a dropbox account on the web) where I could see all search results to sort and filter and see more at once.
(2) Right now the search results show up in a pulldown menu that only shows 4 or 5 at a time - I expect to see more than that at one time in a desktop browser window. If I was using this on mobile then 4 or 5 would make sense.
(3) With a long list, it's difficult to scroll and manage and I can't open a handful of search results in new window, with right click, to compare them. (4) Once I click on a result then it opens in a new tab. When I go back to Dash my search has disappeared.
It's actually faster/easier to open 4 tabs (mail, calendar, dropbox, drive) and search in each of them individually. I was hoping dash would be faster than multiple tabs.
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Leon Lin
Leanne Waldal: Thanks Leanne, will pass this on to the team as well
[Update: The team is working on a redesign that directly addresses this, specifically through a dedicated search results page and a persistent/windowed desktop app :)]
Latif Rajpoot
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