Search history

Every search you run is remembered, so you can come back to it later. How much is kept, and for how long, depends on whether you are signed in.

Without an account

Your last 5 searches are kept in this browser only. They appear under "Search History" in the sidebar; the section is collapsed until you open it. Clicking one runs the search again. Running a query you have already run moves it back to the front of the list.

There is no way to delete an item, and the list does not follow you to another device or browser. Clicking the star next to a search opens a prompt to create an account, because starring needs somewhere to keep the results. See Signing up and signing in.

With an account

Every search is saved to your account, along with its results, the filters you used and the source card if there was one. It is there on any device you sign in from.

The sidebar shows your 10 most recent searches, starred ones first. "View all history" under the list opens a panel with everything. Each item shows the query, how long ago you ran it, and a chip for each library it searched. From there you can star or unstar an item, or delete it with the trash button. Deleting asks you to confirm and cannot be undone.

Clicking an item reopens the cards exactly as you left them: in the order you dragged them into, without any cards you removed, and with the source card. No new search runs, so the results are the same ones you saw before. (The "Searched ..." line that follows a new search is not shown on a reopened one, because the filters it ran with are not reloaded.) You can keep arranging them; see Arranging results.

How long results are kept

• Saved results are kept for 30 days from the last time you ran the search. After that the item stays in your list, but reopening it runs the search fresh, using your current filters rather than the ones saved with the item.
• Starring a search keeps its results permanently. Unstarring it starts the 30 days over from that moment.
• Running the same query again updates the existing item instead of adding a duplicate. It moves to the top of the list with new results and a new 30 days.

Your first sign-in

The first time you sign in, the recent searches from this browser are copied into your account. This happens once. The copied items carry no saved results, so opening one runs the search again.