Allow me to search through my bookmarks from my user page, like you can for posts

Question

When you view your user page the search box, right at the top of the page, is updated with your user ID like so:

Searching from this page (by entering text into the search box) means I can see all of my posts (i.e. questions and answers), because the search box starts with, e.g. user:1234556. But there's no equivalent for bookmarks (or tags, I suppose).

There is a way to search for those, as shown in the advanced search guide:

• user:mine or user:me (or any user id) returns only your posts (or only the posts from whichever user whose id you entered)
• inbookmarks:mine (or any user id) returns only questions that you (or the user whose id you entered) have bookmarked.
• intags:mine returns only posts that appear in tags you have marked as favorite. (If you don't have any tags, this operator does nothing. For better results, update your preferences.)

But from here I need to swap out the user:1075247 for inbookmarks:1075247.

May I request either changing the term on the bookmarks page to inbookmarks:1075247 OR allowing for and adding something like is:bookmark or is:b to switch from all posts to bookmarks.

The same could be done for is:q, is:a, and is:tag for the individual profile pages.

Answer 1

Changing the search term to inbookmarks:[user id] or using a shorter search term would be the best option, but I'd also like to add my own suggestion.

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For each area of the profile page that is searchable (for example, the Answers, Questions and Bookmarks tabs), clicking on the search bar should auto-select the text, after which a user can enter the first letter of the search term resulting in a dropdown list with only the search term(s) relevant for that tab/page.

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Here's an example of what I mean. Consider the Bookmarks tab:

1. Clicking on the search bar (when in the Bookmarks tab) would auto-select the text in it:

   

   Note that the Search Help is still preserved.

2. Typing i in the search bar would result in a dropdown list:

   [i                                           ]      <— Search bar
   > inbookmarks:[user id]         ?      <— Dropdown list

   where user id can be your own id or someone else's depending on the profile, and ? is an on-hover/button-click tooltip.

3. Simply Tab+Enter or click on that option to switch to a bookmarks search.

So if you use a keyboard to navigate, then that's a total of three keyboard presses. Otherwise, it's only one keyboard press and a click.

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This seems a bit far-fetched, but I think it's a good idea.

Answer 2

Here is a simple userscript that you could use until this functionality is implemented. It works on all user profiles (except for the Tags tab, that is limited to your own user ID) - if you visit my profile, the search bar will be prepopulated with user:295232 is:a.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Stack Exchange, Improved Search From Profile
// @author      Glorfindel
// @version     0.1
// @match       *://*.stackexchange.com/users/*
// @match       *://*.stackoverflow.com/users/*
// @match       *://*.superuser.com/users/*
// @match       *://*.serverfault.com/users/*
// @match       *://*.askubuntu.com/users/*
// @match       *://*.stackapps.com/users/*
// @match       *://*.mathoverflow.net/users/*
// @exclude     *://stackoverflow.com/c/*
// @exclude     *://chat.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://chat.stackoverflow.com/*
// @exclude     *://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://api.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://data.stackexchange.com/*
// @exclude     *://winterbash*.stackexchange.com/*
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==
/* global $ */

(function() {
  "use strict";
  
  let search = $("#search input")[0];
  let params = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
  switch (params.get('tab')) {
    case 'answers':
      search.value += ' is:a';
      break;
    case 'bookmarks':
      search.value = search.value.replace('user:', 'inbookmarks:');
      break;
    case 'questions':
      search.value += ' is:q';
      break;
    case 'tags':
      // only works for own tags
      if (search.value == 'user:' + StackExchange.options.user.userId) {
        search.value = 'intags:mine';
      }
      break;
  }
})();

Answer 3

I very much support this FR, you have to type a minimum 12 chars for inbookmarks: and unless you're lucky enough to have a user id below 999 it's a minimum 16 chars to type inbookmarks:mine or inbookmarks:1234.

Having to type so much to search your bookmarks is especially tedious since it's likely to be a frequent search.

in:b or is:b seems like the perfect solution.