“Do you ever forget the title and author of a fic, but you remember the summary?”
The video scrolls down the page and highlights one bullet point on the cheatsheet.
summary: string for works with a particular word or phrase (in quotation marks) in the summary
“You can actually search for that.”
The screen changes to show a closeup of the Search box embedded in the coloured bar at the top of the AO3 homepage. Inside the box are the words summary: love
“So you can search here using a keyword. Pro-tip, the word "love” is going to get you a million results.“
The search changes to summary: conferences
"But the other day, I posted a fic with the word conferences in the summary, and I think that’s probably pretty rare, so let’s see.”
The user presses the search button and the results page populates. The user zooms in to show 322 Found.
“Okay, 322 found. Out of 7 million, that’s not bad!”
The screen returns to the search box. This time the text inside the box reads summary: “conferences kind of suck”
“But I used the phrase conferences kind of suck, so if I search for that and put that phrase in quotation marks-”
The user presses the search button again and the results page populates. This time there is one 1 story found.
“Look! It’s the only result.”
The screen changes to show the page containing all 32177 Works in the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fandom.
“And the thing is, if I know the fandom that it’s in, or the ship, or anything else, I can filter-”
The user taps on the Filter button to open up the sidebar. The screen changes to a zoomed in view of the lower portion of the sidebar with the Search Within Results box at the centre of the screen. An emoji of a hand points to it. Inside the box is the text summary: conferences
“And I can use that same search operator in the Search Within Results box” Note: This is instead of doing it in the search box at the top of the page.
The user presses the Sort & Filter button and the results page populates showing 2 works found within the fandom.
“And look! There’s only two works found, and they’re both in the fandom, and one of them is my fic.”
Doyle Canon: This is Dr. John Watson. He has managed to have multiple love affairs on three different continents. He is a love machine. A sex god, if you will. Able to woo multiple Victorian ladies.
80% of Sherlock Holmes Adaptations: This is Dr. John Watson. He looks like a hamster.
I’m crying laughing over this I had to share
Some adaptations take it further than others.
Doyle canon: “No seriously this man is Adonis reborn - yours earnestly, reliable narrator Dr John Watson”
The takeaway might be that the general populous is starving for some hamster lovin’. Just want to snuggle up to a sweater-wearing decorated war hero who is also a doctor with the patience to deal with Sherlock Holmes.
I love how the search function on this site is absolute garbage. I can look up a post word for word and I will NEVER find it
Pro tip:
Wanna find a post?
Write out what you remember into a Google search.
After you write that out, end with site:tumblr.com
Google will search for your text on just tumblr
In my experience, it’s way more effective than searching through Tumblr
(you can use site:SITENAME.com to search any site btws)
This usually works but for some reason a lot of posts get indexed on google from a person’s URL based on the posts that were recently reblogged on page 1, meaning that this is only a tiny bit more reliable.
I HAVE a solution to this, you have to write down site:tumblr.com/post “ “
and then write a direct quote (could be a fraction of a sentence) into the quotations, I’ve been doing this for years, and it’s so useful, it works like 99% of the time
(the more popular a post is the more likely you’ll find it)
you’re a genius holy shit
Just used this to find a post I’ve been desperately searching for, thank you so much
I’m sorry if I went back three months on your blog and liked a bunch of things. I promise it’s not a weird horny/stalking thing, I just have extreme ADHD and you have Content
I gotta say, when someone does this on my Tumblr I see the posts they’re liking or reblogging on my activity page and all I can think is, “Damn, that WAS a funny post, this one knows what’s good.”
I have content, we both have ADHD, and everyone here has excellent taste.
