We’ve added a global search feature to Wists.
The search will look up users, tags and individual item titles and descriptions all at once – returning the results for each, separately. – So there are no parameters and advanced search settings. Again the rule is: have the user do the least work.
Because tags tend to have multiple variants with the same stem, e.g. Lifehacker, Lifehacks, Lifehacking, Wists search will return everything starting with ‘Lifehack’. However, because people have tagged things separately you can still filter by one tag in particular.
I can see that perhaps using search and tags with extensions to common word stems might evolve some interesting patterns.
For example, if I wanted to start a list of restaurants for my friends I coud tag as ‘restaurant_dgfriends’ and filter by that in a search for restaurant. I’ll have to think about it – but the next step for Wists will be how we look at groups and community and hopefully there is something that involves minimal effort for users there too.