Filter bar is overly complex and missing features

I'm a new user so sorry if I'm just not seeing this, but I would like to be able to conduct a free text search of all idea data, and I would like to be able to add a filter for the Reference ID which I do not see as an option when I go to add a filter. I also feel like the process of having to manually add filters every time I need to filter by something adds a lot of extra clicks and is extremely extraneous.