observablehq
Feature Request: Search also in Collections
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Search is always on the notebook level. This means that useful collections can never be "searched" only "discovered" by visiting a user or a notebook and going back "upstream" to discover the collection. This hampers discoverability of collections.
Describe the solution you'd like Add a checkbox / option on search for "search in collections" which uses whatever metadata about collections (description/title/etc) you (Observable) deem relevant. Search results would then include not only "notebook" results but "collections" results that would show a thumbnail of the associated collection.
Describe alternatives you've considered there's no user enabled way to search collections.
Looks like my request is a dupe of https://github.com/observablehq/feedback/issues/360
I am just relooking at this and realized that this request is a bit different from #360. @mootari was asking to be able to search for notebooks in a particular collection (or in no collection). Whereas this request is to show collections in the search results. I am re-opening this issue to make sure we don't miss that distinction.
