Our team’s top complaint about Coda is still “Search doesn’t work” and it’s primarily because of this issue, so I’d like to follow up on this with a bit more context.
In Aug 2020, @AlanFang posted a great overview of the then-new improvements to search in Coda. These changes made it possible to search for a page by title, but they did not make it clear when you had successfully found a page by title. Alan pointed this limitation out in his overview then:
Note: In some cases, you may see a doc in the search results with no highlighted match. In these cases, the match is a page title.
This has the following effect:
- User wants to find the page “Artemis Roadmap”
- Type
artemis roadmapinto search - The desired result does not seem like it contains the term “Artemis Roadmap”, even though they know for a fact there is a commonly referenced page with this title
- Instead of clicking on the desired page, user clicks on something else or second-guesses their search term
This has been undermining our team’s faith in Coda as a place you can put findable information.
Proposed Solution
While it would be great if the top-level search result’s title was the page title and it’s icon, it would still help a lot if the search result text contained something like “Page: Artemis Roadmap” highlighted. Right now correct page title search results look like they’re irrelevant.