Make search box usable earlier in page loading

I've been bitten numerous times by opening my WeTrakr PWA shortcut and starting to type a query in the search box, only for the page to finally finish loading and—importantly—clear what I had started to type. To actually search I have to tap in the text field again and start over.

There's a separate idea thread about making the frontend load faster, caching more data, that kind of thing. This is related I guess, but bugs me often enough that I wanted to mention it separately.

I can't speak for everyone, but I have two main workflows with a tracking site:

  • Coming here to mark something I just watched

  • Coming here to mark something I plan to watch

That's ~90% of the times I open WeTrakr. And unless what I just watched is 1) a TV episode that 2) happens to be in my continue-watching shelf, the first thing I do is gonna be a search.

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In Review

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Date

20 days ago

Author

dgw

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