[rafd]

"multiple conversations all jumbled up" is exactly what initially motivated me to start hacking on Braid.

Braid's search is certainly something that can be improved. In practice, it's actually pretty rare to have to fish for something in the archives, because you tend to keep relevant conversations open until you're done with them. (We also have "starring", like in Gmail, so that you can move conversations out of your inbox, but still keep them easily accessible).

On a day-to-day, a good "search" experience might actually be more relevant for slicing-and-dicing through your Inbox (ie. triaging the firehose of daily messages), rather than digging up old messages.

[Jestar342]

I use searching in slack relatively frequently for things like snippets for obscure (yet unexpectedly needed again in the future) shell scripts, or small data items like email addresses or Ids that were sent in a message about a bug or other support issue that my manager/colleague is now asking about 3 weeks later.