Issue to discuss search redesign as started in comment section of pull request #1305, with focus on:

• Use cases (i.e. what would one search for and what would one expect the results to look like)
• GUI integration (if possible create graphical mockups)
• Possible implementations (code drafts, proof-of-concepts).

Original motivation from pull request #1305:

@fonic wrote:

[Regarding the search] it all comes down to use cases.

Therefore, I'd like to suggest opening an issue for this where we try to collect/construct all imaginable use cases, i.e. what would one search for and what would one expect of the search to help you reach your objective. Once we got the use cases, we can come up with ideas for implementations that would cover those.