Recoll does not index files with "..." at the beginning of the name
This is a minor quibble for what I suppose is an extreme, or perhaps even unique, edge case. If it's difficult for you to fix then please don't bother because I can change my naming convention indicated below.
Recoll does not index files with "..." at the beginning of the name. It took me a while to figure out the problem. But eventually I realized why many of the files I was searching for were not appearing in Recoll's search results.
I use Recoll in conjunction with AutoKey (not to be confused with the presumably much more popular AutoHotKey which runs on Microsoft Windows). AutoKey has many bugs, glitches, and is not actively maintained but once I figured out how to navigate it's myriad potholes (flaws) I have found that it works remarkably well for me. If I type, ".tflmk" then AutoKey replaces that text with "Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate that."
"tflmk" is an acronym I created from the first letter of Thanks for letting me know. I prepend my shortcuts with "." to avoid creating shortcuts that are parts of the spelling of ordinary English words.
I like to prepend the names of some of the files I create in AutoKey with "..." as a way to remind myself that the title of that document comes from text I copied from within the document but is different than the first words in the document. For example, I might name a document, "...this is an interesting approach.py" if the document actually contains the text, "I have found that this is an interesting approach." It's as if I'm putting a tiny little bit of metadata into the file name.
Yes. I know. That is a strange way to name a file: a very strange way to name a file.