I've often been confused by the functionality of the "Quick Search" and the "Search Tasks" shortcuts in the top middle of the aLOG home page. Rather, I understand the "Search Tasks" field -- I just think it's functionality is not needed -- and the "Quick search" is not reliable enough at returning good search results to be useful. More accurately, "Quick search" only searches for the entered text as a keyword. 

For example a search for "kissel" doesn't return anything written by me, only the one's to which I've added my name in the text. Another example, if I enter in an aLOG entry number "1933" it returns nothing. 

Conversely, I think the "Search" page has enough versatility that it returns exactly what I want, everytime.

In summary I suggest:
Removal of the "Search Tasks" possibility, and have the "Quick Search" use the user input as all possible search fields (Section/Task, Report ID, Date, Authors, and keywords), if we want to keep the quick search at all.