[Tip] Searching your forum bookmarks, pinned topics, categories, other users, etc. OR Useful search modifiers- Updated

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[Tip] Searching your forum bookmarks, pinned topics, categories, other users, etc. OR Useful search modifiers- Updated

Adding in:bookmarks

Addingin:bookmarks to any search lets you search your forum bookmarks

Unfortunately you will probably have to bookmark this topic in your browser so you can find it to remember how to search your bookmarks.

Adding in:pinned

Adding in:pinned lets you search only pinned topics

Adding #[sub-forum:sub^2-forum]

Adding #[sub-forum:sub^2-forum] lets you search only the sub-forum, or sub^2-forum

Example

#bugs-issues

#news-announcements:apply-beta ( not sure spelling, currently closed )

Adding @user

Adding @user ( example @Pois1 ) lets you further narrow the search to a particular forum user.

Adding in:title

Adding in:title lets you search only titles ( example in:titles Trial Survival )

Adding tags:[tag]

Adding tags:[tag] lets you search moderator/ content creator tags

Example

tags:beta-beat

tags:class-trials

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Bookmarked. Thanks @Gryphonknight for sharing the knowledge

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Make sure your computer does not auto correct in:bookmarks to In:bookmarks.

All letters must be lowercase.

Yes, if In:bookmarks is the ##FIRST## search term it will correct the case. But if it is the second, or later term, it will not.

If you find it cumbersome to type the bookmarks search filter, you can also use the Advanced Search UI to turn it on:

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The pleasure of knowing everyone is bookmarking your topic…Very clever!

Yes, of course I bookmarked it! Thank you, @Gryphonknight!

Edit: Dang! I didn’t realize how old the original post was!

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