I wonder if it is possible to search in just my favorited questions?
If not, can it be considered as a feature request?
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Sign up to join this communityFrom my original answer here:
I think the most flexible solution would be to add a search parameter infavorites:x
that would allow searches on people's favourited questions.
The parameter x
would be one of:
mine
, a shortcut to search your own favouritesall
, to search in all users' favouritesThis plays well with all the existing search parameters.
Since everyone's favourites are public anyway (and are included in the data dump), I don't see a problem exposing this type of feature in search.
all
option...that one's crazy expensive without an indexing change and can't see a real win by implementing it. That being said, we could do it a different way if it was really helpful.
Jan 6, 2013 at 22:29
mine
to my user id, but there is no result. :(
[status-needs-fix]
? I suggested in the A's comment that the [status-completed]
tag should be removed. Not only would that reflect the reality (in the sense that it's no longer 'complete' due to regression) but may also attract attention.
infavorites:mine [tag]
:D
I currently have 1850 questions favorited for various reasons. Many of them have good answers in them (I can't favorite answers, grrr) or otherwise have information relevant to me. Some of them I want to track over a period of time. Some are just amusing or otherwise illustrative of programmer peculiarities.
I would welcome some kind of search facility on my favorites, even if it just found a keyword or two in the text of the questions or answers, or if I have to use a special string in Google to accomplish it.
Actually, filtering the favorites on a specified tag would work too.
UPDATE: infavorites:mine has been implemented.
Only American spelling of favorites is supported.
I have found stackoverflow favorites organizer by googling.
It works well in Chrome but I had issues with it in Firefox. Not perfect but I managed to find the question I was looking for reasonably quick.
I hope infavorites:mine
will be implemented soon.
infavorites:mine
automatically got converted to infavorites:4790871
for me, which appears to implement everything desired. Horray
Apr 6, 2018 at 15:57
This could be part of an advanced search page.
Yes, this can be done by adding to your search query the following:
infavorites:mine
So as an example, to find posts you favorited that have "notification" mentioned in the title you would type this in the search box:
notification infavorites:mine
A list of more search operators can be found on the help page here:
Here is a JS snippet you can use as a bookmark. Mark the full code and drag it on your bookmark bar or paste it into the url field when editing a bookmark.
javascript:(function(){var i=$("input[name=q]").val("infavorites:mine ")[0];i.focus()})()
This bookmark can be used on all StackExchange pages to initialise a search in your favourites.
Remembering infavorites:mine
in my rare cases that I actually need to search through my favourites was too hard for me, so I made this bookmark for me.
I also wanted to be able to use it on all of my StackExchange sites, so that's why the bookmark won't redirect you to any search site. Go to your StackExchange site of your choice and click the bookmark for the favourite search, afterwards.
EDIT: The code I provided above will not work on the main StackExchange site to search through all your favorites from ALL StackExchange sites, though. For a proper solution to this problem, please check Cross-site inbookmarks:mine search.
$
is working, because jQuery is available and loaded on all SE sites. Remember that you execute the script in the scope of the website itself, when you click on the bookmark. It means that you can access all JavaScript objects that are available. So I used it, to make my snippet easier to understand.
Apr 27, 2020 at 7:02
score:50
(filter by 50 or more upvotes), however there is no way to find only your upvoted questions.
Apr 27, 2020 at 7:06
I'm unaware of when (and why) this keyword changed, but the Search Help lists the following:
inbookmarks:mine
infavorites:1
was implemented in August 2010, but no longer supported since the new search was introduced early 2011.infavorites
no longer supported? I use that search term a lot, and it's quite handy. (@Arjan's link is broken.)status-completed
tag? maybe this was removed by accident, in which case it is again afeature-request
. if it was removed by intent (I hope not) then it would be now astatus-declined
.