There's one feature of the Monastery that is puzzling me. Does the Keyword Notelet do anything useful, or is it something that seemed like a good idea at the time?

I could imagine the Super search form including it at some stage - however, I can understand that using it to build indices in the database could place too much of an overhead on the site (once it starts being used).

How about a compromise? How about adding a keywords textbox to the super search form, which serves to qualify, i.e. filter the results of the search.

This could enable monks to bookmark useful terms for future searches.

I imagine a syntax within the box like:

   expr endofstring

   expr :-  comby [ '|' comby ...] ;

   comby :- term  [ '&' term ...] ;

   term :- '(' expr ')'
   |       /\w+/ ;
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Any thoughts?

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