Command Bar Improvements

[thmsobrmlr]

Command Bar Improvements

#17864 and #18355 bring us a global search and command bar. There are a lot of ways to improve it and this issue tracks

Please let me know what you like / don't like and any other ideas :) Roughly ordered by perceived importance.

Todos

• Implement metrics from feat(command-bar): add search to command bar #17864
  • Instrument existing search fix(autocapture): add taxonomic filter key as data-attr #17899 / https://app.posthog.com/dashboard/110036
  • Add PostHog events / use autocapture for new search
  • Add Prometheus metrics
• Find a way to announce the shortcut in the app (maybe a hint in the sidebar)
• Don't debounce the initial search load
• Fix issues originating from current command palette
  • Focus command bar when activating a command
  • Handle executor bugs e.g. display them in the command k menu (see below item)
  • Fix bug: refresh page on https://app.posthog.com/notebooks and perform the "create dashboard" flow -> logic not mounted

Ways/ideas to improve the search

• "Recently searched..."
• Implement a facetted search interface for tags, authors, etc
• Boost things the user has created/viewed/... in the search; generally things that are looked at often
• Maybe try out trigram (fuzzy) search as an alternative
• Add a preview like on the website
• Allow searching entities in ClickHouse (persons/events)
• Hide tabs for features the team doesn't user e.g. hide actions if the team doesn't have any
• Add a search headline (highlighting the search term in the results)
• Perf improvement: Limit the number of returned entries per entity
• Perf improvement: Add a search vector column / GIN index
• Allow to customize the search language for better results

Ways/ideas to improve the commands

• Add commands to toggle light/dark mode
• "Recently performed..."
• Add commands for all product sections