[Feature] Refactored search

[alex-phillips]

The feature

Getting the discussion started for a refactor to the search functionality. Several items discussed:

• Possibly expanding the syntax of the search to include more manual / specific identifiers. Currently there is m:, but what about something like tag:tag one, tag two? Could also include people: as well as other asset properties.
• "Specific" searching vs fuzzy searching. Perhaps this should be more of a 'filter' and then the search itself is for fuzzy searching. Filters would be perfect for a set of items we can pull from the database such as camera make/model.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[bo0tzz]

An example of the sort of filter UI that is intended:

In the free-text search field, it would be nice to have typeahead support that suggests fields to filter by.

[Cotywio]

Knowing nothing about how search works on the back end, is there any reason why we can't combine the results from object recognition and people/exif info? That way I can search for something like, "John Smith at the beach on June 19th" or something similar (preferably without having to type "m:", hard to push that to regular users). If this is already something that can be done or the wrong thread for this I apologize.

[bo0tzz]

Doing it that seamlessly would be pretty tricky, but it should certainly be possible to filter by "John Smith" and "June 19th", and then do a CLIP search within those filters for "at the beach"

[Moelf]

I think it's pretty reasonable to be able to combine different search, tag: and people: are not exposed right now.

I understand sequential refining is hard (e.g. clip: x, then clip: blah), but the above should be doable?

[tsemachh]

I would recommend considering using the typesense aloglia ui adapter
Mainly integrate some facets like album , people tag etc.
There's SvelteKit adaption of algolia ui , still need to match it all together , but my experience is really good with this UI.

[Th0mC]

Is it, or will be, possible to search for photos with 2 persons in it?

[davidXire]

The idea behind this feature, is it also to be able to search with data inside exif (like tag put with lightroom) ?