I remember, that we had this subject anywhere in the forum and then I begin to search, using all tricks I know.SHiRKiT wrote:How can you remember/search with such precision ssilk? I can barely remember my own posts!
- shrinking by board
- did I answered? I remember (in most cases
) what I have posted, so I can shrink to my nickname. Might sound a bit unfair, when I link to my posts, but they are just easier to find for me, cause I will use most times the same (search-)words for the same thing.- and I remember also very well, who might have answered a theme, especially the devs. That can shrink also the results dramatically.
- I find a similar article. Then I search backwards: Are there other articles, that links to this one? This is easy: I take the thread-id (like "7911") and search for that and find other similar articles, that links to 7911.
- I search for some words. That is the most difficult job, cause the usage of words change over time. It is in most cases useful to use more than one word. * is also a good tool (Did they wrote "research" or "researching", no problem, I look for "research*").
- And then, well, the rest is just hard work: reading through the results. I look then also to the date of post, cause I also remember in some cases about the date-range, when that was discussed.
I think the most important part is, that I know, that something is already discussed and I know, I will find it, when I search long enough. It makes no sense to search with that depth, if you don't know that.
