Toggle advanced search "Card Descriptions" does what exactly?

[Nils]

I'm confused.

I do Advanced search on 'fun' (without the ticks) and get card A and card B.

'Fun' here is not in the title, not in the labels, not in comments, but in both descriptions.

I toggle "Include card descriptions in search" and get text B.

Same applies, 'fun' is in the description only, but text A (which clearly also has 'fun' in its description) no longer shows up.

Why does it not show text A here; what changes?

What does "Include card descriptions in search" even mean then, if it apparently defaults to showing me card description results when it's off, and other card description results when it's on. 

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As an aside; quite off-subject but: does Rovo offer good semantic (fun, funny, amusing) and even 'heuristic' (the card does not have the word fun but it deals with that theme) results? I can get these kinds of returns with LMNotebook but that's a hassle.

[Cody · Accepted solution]

Hi Nils! Starting at the end, Rovo is pretty good about context and categorization, definitely worth trying out.

That Include card descriptions in search button literally adds the description: operator to your search, which is intended to return results where your keywords exist in the description. More about that here: https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/searching-for-cards-all-boards/

From my understanding, this is more of a refinement, rather than an expansion. Maybe more accurately it would be, "Match text in card descriptions". Indexing also isn't always perfect for these. It's unclear why both of your cards wouldn't be returned!

If you like, feel free to create a ticket with us here if you'd like to investigate further: support.atlassian.com/contact

[Nils]

Sounds solid. 

Have been looking at solutions to fight label entropy and create a semantic layer to our cards. I had discovered that labels are good at hard restricting, but not at all at 'fuzzy' search. Description search seems to work better for that.

So, right now, I'm experimenting with a markdown code block at the bottom that contains all possible associations and alternatives.

I'm not sure if my assessment was 100% correct; maybe the card does show up somewhere further down the list--it was just a quick test, but clearly the confusion about results was enough to see what approach would work or not.

For now, no ticket, thanks!

FYI: I've been experimenting with LMNotebook sourced on board exports and that looks promising, so I'll definitely be pushing our team to open up to Rovo.

Thanks for your response.