Comment 18 for bug 970686

wow this a brutal regression as far as I'm concerned. Makes me want to consider Unity.
Are there any decent workarounds at the moment?

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/62/journal/ is not bad, except for you can't search it, and it requires a separate tab. (Ctrl+PgDn also switches tabs in the Activities Overview, or try Ctrl+Alt+Tab)
(you might also want to try https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/33/jump-lists/ to ease the pain...)