Quick Search

Words typed in the Search field are, by default, matched against the record titles only. This is very good for quickly retrieving records you have bookmarked where you know some word(s) from the title and the set of results will be small.

Why Use Quick Search?

Quick Search is your first port of call for anything not in your Favourites list or saved searches. If you get used to using Quick Search, you will soon find yourself using it for everything not on your home page - you are just a click or so away from anything you use regularly, and a click away from a Google search on the same terms.

For example, find everything to do with the University's Spendvision system simply by typing spend, anything to do with Angkor by typing angk, most things to do with the University of Sydney by typing usyd. If it's not in the system (and academic references will increasingly be already in the system) click on the web search link to send the same search to Google.

How to Use Quick Search

Use a single word - or even part of a word - to rapidly find anything in your bookmarks (or anyone's bookmarks) by searching titles.

To find:

Sydney travel pages use syd trav or trav syd as search terms
specific phrases enclose words in " " double quotation marks

Note: Google searches on whole words only. So "syd trav" only gets 62,000 hits whereas "sydney travel" gets 45,000,000 hits.

The buttons next to the Search box repeat the search across the records you've bookmarked (my bookmarks), all records in the system (all records) and via a Google search of the web (web search).

[Enter] has the same effect as hitting the currently selected button.

If the search retrieves too much, just type another word (the cursor will still be in the Search field) and hit [Enter] to narrow the search.

All Fields

Use modifiers to search specific parts of the bookmarks/records:

type:
tag:
url:
notes:
workgroup:
user:
field:
all:

Geographic Fields

To find records with geographic objects that contain a given point, use latitude and longitude, e.g. latitude:10 longitude:100

Title Field, Tags field

Use e.g. title=xxx or tag=xxx (rather than title:xxx or tag:xx which match partial strings) to match whole words.

You can also use < or > for matching.

Any Terms

To find records that include either of two search terms, use an uppercase OR. e.g. timemap OR "time map"

To omit records that include a search term, precede the term with a single dash. e.g. -maps -keyword:timelines