[Design] What is the purpose of the All collection?

[Mimi Yin]

Just chatted with Alec a bit and we came to this conclusion:

What if users like Alec could hide the DONE section from the  
Dashboard. The DONE section would only reappear when the user is  
searching. (All of your DONE stuff is really most useful in the  
context of Search, especially if you have a lot of it.)

I'm not sure we could hide the DONE section out of the box, it might  
be kind of confusing for your items to just disappear when you mark  
them DONE, you might worry that they've been Trashed. But once users  
feel like they have too much stuff in the DONE section, they can hide  
it. For now it could be a simple View menu option: Show>>NOW, LATER,  
DONE.

Search
We also discussed Search. Today, we are already searching the entire  
repository every time you search. So, it would fairly simple to  
preserve a Search query across Collections. It's hard to display the  
# of search results in each collection, so in the short-term users  
won't get any visual feedback that a Collection does in fact contain  
search results, but we could try it as a first step in the right  
direction.

Proposal
1. All searches query the entire repository (already going this today)
2. Queries are preserved as the user navigates across Collections
3. Queries need to be explicitly killed (with an x-button)

Mimi

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