Ask HN: Why is Fastmail's search so terrible and how can it be improved?
Love Fastmail. But their search can be improved so much. Gmail does a great job at this.
Just a few examples of it being hard to use:
- no partial matches
- no matches for spelling mistakes
- weird indexing of some sort of email content (attachments?) that leads to a match when there is absolutely nothing related in that email
- it has no idea about the context of the search to improve matches, like 'flight' being possibly related to e.g. travel
What are possible low-hanging fruits for them to improve their search? I know this is only a theoretical discussion, though maybe someone from FM is taking notes or last-minute Christmas wishes :-)
Just a few examples of it being hard to use:
- no partial matches
- no matches for spelling mistakes
- weird indexing of some sort of email content (attachments?) that leads to a match when there is absolutely nothing related in that email
- it has no idea about the context of the search to improve matches, like 'flight' being possibly related to e.g. travel
What are possible low-hanging fruits for them to improve their search? I know this is only a theoretical discussion, though maybe someone from FM is taking notes or last-minute Christmas wishes :-)