Zotero 7: Unintuitive annotation search results
Would someone be able to explain the annotation search behavior that I'm experiencing?
1. Highlight some text, and add the comment "Alternating" (without the quotes).
2. Open the side bar, and in the "Search Annotations" field type "alternative" (without the quotes).
3. Notice that the annotation from step 1 matches the search pattern.
4. Modify the search pattern to be "alternatives" (without the quotes).
5. Notice that the annotation from step 1 does not match the new search pattern.
Is there a reason why the annotation comment "Alternating" would match the search pattern "alternative", but not match "alternatives"?
This is using version 7.0.0-beta.54+6b996d4f9 (64-bit) on Linux.
1. Highlight some text, and add the comment "Alternating" (without the quotes).
2. Open the side bar, and in the "Search Annotations" field type "alternative" (without the quotes).
3. Notice that the annotation from step 1 matches the search pattern.
4. Modify the search pattern to be "alternatives" (without the quotes).
5. Notice that the annotation from step 1 does not match the new search pattern.
Is there a reason why the annotation comment "Alternating" would match the search pattern "alternative", but not match "alternatives"?
This is using version 7.0.0-beta.54+6b996d4f9 (64-bit) on Linux.
If you believe this approach is more problematic than beneficial, please let us know, and we can consider improving this.
I don't know what a good solution would be - maybe excluding correctly spelled words from the matching algorithm? Possibly highlighting the matched terms in the annotations would already be helpful in figuring out why a given annotation was matched. Another helpful addition could be a clearer indication - like a horizontal line - of where the non-exact matches start appearing.