How to quickly & easily search for Contacts/Accounts

How to quickly & easily search for Contacts/Accounts

Just started with Zoho and it's seems pretty good but the one absolutely horrendous thing about it is searching for Contacts and Accounts.
I could be doing it wrong and any advice would be appreciated.

If I want to look for a Contact, then the process seems to be:
  1. Scroll past all the System Defined Filters
  2. Scroll past all the Website Activity Filters
  3. Scroll to Contact Name under Filter by Fields and tick it
  4. Type out the whole name as the default setting on a filter is "is"
  5. Or change "is" to "contains" so you can search with just a partial name, which is usual when people have really long names and/or have tricky spellings
Or you use the Search at the top of the page for Contact Name then do steps 3 to 5.

Either way it is a lot of scrolling and typing before you get to enter the name of the person you are looking for.

I've used a few CRMs over many years and 90% of the time I'm searching for a contact's name, account/organisation or email. I have never searched by any field in System Defined Filters nor Website Activity Filters and can't think when I ever will.

What I am used to with CRMs is a quick search option (I expected the Search to be this), type in a name or part name of a Contact or Account and hit enter, then all Contacts and Accounts that contain what you've typed appear.

Why doesn't Zoho have this?

Or at the very least allow you to mark filters as favourites so they are always at the top of the page, and allow you to set what the default of the filter is - is, contains, is empty, doesn't contain, etc....

Searching under Accounts has the same problem. 

If there is a quicker simpler way to look up Contacts/Accounts that I don't know about please let me know. As the current process is so painful.

Thanks