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Posted by jimspoon
Jul 14, 2009 at 05:16 AM
I am a big fan of an “incremental find” - the program filters your database as you type in the search string or phrase. The list of matching items shrinks as you type in more characters. It’s a big time saver.
For a table of data, with data fields stored in columns, I’d like the ability to have incremental find available in a box at the top of each column. Say there is a “Last Name” column - I’d like to be able to type in characters in the box to narrow search results to items with those characters in the Last Name field. Something like the Autofilter available in Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc, but with the incremental find implemented.
Incremental find would also be great for searching not only for the text contained in a data field, but also tags, or data field names. I’ve seen that in the Delicious extension for Firefox.
Has anybody seen a PIM that makes good use of incremental find?
Here’s a Wikipedia article about incremental find:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_find
Posted by Jon Polish
Jul 14, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Would Info Select meet your requirements?
Jon
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jul 14, 2009 at 03:11 PM
> Has anybody seen a PIM that makes good use of incremental find?
IQ has 2 kinds of incremental find:
1- 1 for each column (as you mentioned) (Ctrl-G). Filters items in the current grid.
2- Global (all text fields in all grids) (Ctrl-F)
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jul 14, 2009 at 05:37 PM
Hi,
PersonalBrain has an incremental find.
http://www.thebrain.com/
Posted by dan7000
Jul 14, 2009 at 06:47 PM
Evernote does incremental find - at least in v. 3.5 for Windows. As you type in the search field, the note list gets narrower and narrower. It’s painfully slow, though, if you search in a notebook with lots of notes (it takes a while for the note list to refresh)—so I would actually prefer they did regular, non-incremental find if it would help performance.