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currently you find custom search engines by going to settings -> search engines -> manage search engines. then you can add custom ones by writing down appropriate keywords and URLs, which will usually end in something like "?q=%s"; the %s is the search term https://t.co/P8XFIOh1Mf
then you type the keyword into the URL bar and then type the search term. like this: https://t.co/5AcpbFslko
1. custom twitter searches - "tw" searches all of twitter, "tq" searches my own tweets, "tvv" searches @visakanv's tweets, "tmo" searches @Malcolm_Ocean's tweets. this is a key part of my QT game b/c it minimizes the # of keypresses to find a tweet https://t.co/7gx5lEUUc6
you seriously will not understand how much better having custom search engines for tweets makes twitter until you use them long enough to search reflexively w/o thinking. in chrome go to settings -> manage search engines -> add, then add a search engine like this https://t.co/YslJmtBL0X
"twf" searches tweets from everyone i follow (that's "&pf=on"), for when i want to find a tweet but can't remember who wrote it https://t.co/yAhNRH7kTe
"tm" searches my mentions (by searching for tweets addressed to me but not written by me), for when i want to check replies from people i don't follow. this is also a version of the mentions tab that strips out likes which should just exist already smh https://t.co/h1gJ0ZDCUk
2. "et" searches https://t.co/wkNeBYqjty for the etymology of a word. really nice for when i'm just having idle thoughts about the etymology of a word, again saves keypresses https://t.co/i51OUZdjh1
3. lol i actually completely forgot i had this one but "lib" searches library genesis. nice https://t.co/NqWsDsMgw6
4. "yt" searches youtube. i don't know how to describe how much more accessible this made the mental motion "i wonder if i can find a youtube video about..." https://t.co/3gRxe1Eyzn
5. "oeis" searches the online encyclopedia of integer sequences. this is only useful when i'm doing a specific kind of math and at no other time but it's really nice and simple to have around. i have a few other math searches, for wolframalpha, stackexchange, and my blog https://t.co/BC32vQr54c
