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The โfind in viewโ feature could be a lot better. Here are the problems I see:
Search text obscures field names: when you click the magnifying glass or type โ+F, the text-entry window covers up the field names. You canโt tell what field youโre looking at unless you scroll left/right to get around the search window.
Search only returns โperfect matchโ results: If I search for โJohn Doeโ I also want to see results for โJohn S. Doe,โ โJohn Q. Doeโ and โDr. John Doe.โ As it is, these variants are outside of my search results. Unless I know their middle initials or titles and know that they were entered into Airtable with those variants, I have to search for โDoeโ and look through every single Tom, Dick, and Harry โDoeโ to find the John I want.
Search is limited to a single field: Similar to the above, I want to find a 2016 transaction made by Jane Smith, but if I search for โJane Smith 2016โ no results are found.
Search results should be more like filter results: My people table has 5,000+ contacts and three different formula fields that incorporate their name. So if I search for โJohnโ, I find a lot of Johns distributed throughout my base and have to click through โJohnโ three times in each record until finding the one I want. I often end up creating a filter just for the purposes of finding a single record. Itโs beautiful the way a filter eliminates everything youโre not looking for and collapses all the โJohnsโ into an easy-to-scan group of records. But itโs time-consuming to create a custom filter for the purposes of locating a single record. Couldnโt search work more like the filter?
Anyway, those are my observations/suggestions. Overall I think Airtable is terrific and I love seeing it get better and better.