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Nothing fancy, or special, but I use them so that I don’t have go to a site first and then search.

Over the years I’ve built one up that recognizes various record ID formats or other record numbers and automatically takes you to that record or forwards you to the site if you paste the entire url.

It has a few other keyword shortcuts to save on monotonous clicks.

Nowadays with slack and people being a bit web savvier in general it’s not as useful as it once was, but you’d be surprised how annoying it is to enter jira ticket ids over and over.



I feel like you’re talking about custom site search that the browser search bar supports and not bookmarklets


I’m not, guess it wasn’t clear what I meant.




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