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Notes search is very slow via global search

Open klemens-u opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Nextcoud web interface
  2. Click on the notes icon to open the notes app
  3. Click on the search icon
  4. Search for a note title

Actual behaviour

Search is annoyingly slow - many seconds, and worst: "Notes" results are shown last

Expected behaviour

Valid notes search results should be shown immediately similar to e.g. the Android app

Two possible solutions come to mind:

  1. Offer a notes-specific search (additional to global search)
  2. Fix the global search. E.g. make the app-specific search context aware. When I'm in the notes app, search for notes first, than search other apps like files etc.

Server

Please complete the following information.

Notes app version: 4.6.0
Nextcloud version: 25.0.2

klemens-u avatar Feb 14 '23 16:02 klemens-u

The backend currently gets all notes contents from the files, which is slow.

Building a separate index like in collectives would be an option: https://gitlab.com/collectivecloud/collectives/-/merge_requests/541

However in that case we should think about moving that to a core API so that we don't duplicate code and maintenance effort on two apps.

juliusknorr avatar Feb 17 '23 14:02 juliusknorr

The new 3-column layout has a search field now, which is very nice, but it needs to be full-text search instead of only searching the title.

I created an separate issue for that: #1069

klemens-u avatar Jun 30 '23 06:06 klemens-u