The search function returns a list of conversations and emails containing the query but it doesn't highlight them inside the conversation.
Conversations can be very long may not even load the portion containing the search terms.
Currently when searching for specific text in previously sent emails, say the words 'Product Bundles' the search filter populates all emails that the text is found in. It would be great to have the text highlighted in the emails so I can see the exact conversation 'Product Bundles' was mentioned and not have to scroll through the entire email thread.
Highlighted text in pre-expanded messages would be perfect!
Thoughts on renaming this post to "Highlight terms in search results"
@Daniel Murray - Engineer@Canny: Done!
@Bastien Bournet-Charrier: My bad, accidentally deleted your reply here.
I think it would be helpful to have a way to iterate through the highlighted items, like how a word processor or browser can jump forward and back through items when you search with Cmd or Ctrl-F.
Custom/renamed titles of emails must be searchable as well. I love Missive's ability to change titles but it's a let down that they aren't searched.
@Alex Arbab-Zadeh: Custom titles should be searched, although not in a “full text search” fashion (eg. search with a singular word may not find a title with the plural version of that word). Can you please email us at support@missiveapp.com to give us an example that doesn’t seem to work?
@Alex Arbab-Zadeh: Indeed. It is very common for “full text” search engines to strip non-alphabetical characters when indexing and searching. I am pretty sure you would get similar results with the Gmail search.
@Rafael Masson: Hi Rafael, sorry the canny notification was marked as a promotional email by Gmail and I have all these being filtered out of my inbox. Been so busy I haven't checked them. You're right, Missive is searching them so I apologise for my above comment! It is doing some partial matching though... for example, I have been re-titling email conversations with the model inside < >, e.g. '<T3>'. However, when I search for '<T3>' I get loads of results that include just 'T3'.
Our team frequently tags each other on email threads to get feedback on drafts or just to keep others in the loop. Once I archive it, there seems to be no way for me to find it again. Search should bring these back up.
I'm surprised this isn't upvoted more. Having used Missive for almost a year now, the search is essentially useless for 10-month long conversations.
What makes it worse is the constant scrolling and loading. Scroll up, load. Scroll up, load some more. If I want to find something from several months ago, it can take several minutes of scrolling and loading. And once I click on a different conversation or email and have to come back, I get to do it all again.
would be nice to have a single comprehensive search that searches all messages regardless of to whom assigned, or closed, etc. Maybe set a time frame to search back (e.g. day, week, month) to limit size of search results?
@Brad Trout: I agree with this, the single biggest moan from my team is not being able to find emails. This is usually because they have assigned the message to someone else or closed it etc. It would be better if there was a global search for team messages, that you had ever been:
1. Recipient
2. Team Recipient
3. Assigned - currently or previously
4. Mentioned - currently or previously
@Stew : Yes! And search functionality appears to be better or worse by the day. My team is very frustrated.
Also I would like the search to output a result when searching for "lumiere" instead of "lumière" with an accent.
Since fuzzy search is now enabled on our account this feature would be very welcome!