Due to a small bug in the code, it was previously only possible to limit search results to collections that didn’t have hyphens in their ids. That meant that if you wanted to search a specific part of the Vinaya, it was impossible. Now if you just want to look in the Bhikkhuni Nissaggiya Pācittiya of the Theravada school for “bowls”, you can search for
in:pli-tv-bi-vb-np bowl
Or in the Therāpadāna:
in:tha-ap bowl
You can find the ids for these collections if you look at the url of whatever book you want to search in, e.g.
In my research, I’m often wanting to find out if I’ve made a note on something, so I search in Bilara, where there is a dedicated field for comments. I’m wondering if something like that would be a useful filter?
but was convinced it wasn’t a good idea, at least with my suggested implementation. We can reopen it or start from scratch with a new issue.
Currently in: is used to limit the entire search to specific collections (or groups of collections through shortcuts). The plan is to also extend this to shortcuts of languages so you would be able to do something like in:pali to indicated a group of Pali collections.
In my mind recycling the in: flag for notes would be confusing. But maybe not. You would need to be able to do something like in:dn in:notes breath.
Anyway, maybe we should talk about that in the github issue rather than in this anouncement thread.