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Search Your Bookmarks

Last updated: October 10, 2026

Search Your Bookmarks

TL;DR Press / and type what you remember, in your own words: saved today, saved this week, most visited. Speed Dial 2 understands you and finds it instantly.

Just say what you're looking for

You don't need to remember a bookmark's name or which group you put it in. Type what you do remember, such as when you saved it or how often you use it, and Speed Dial 2 finds it:

saved today
Everything you added today
saved this week
That site you saved a few days ago
saved yesterday
Bookmarks from yesterday
saved last month
Anything from the past 30 days
most visited
The sites you use the most
never visited
Saved, but never opened
added in july
Bookmarks from a specific month
older than a year
Old bookmarks worth cleaning up

That's it. No special syntax, no menus. Press / on your new tab page, type a phrase like one of these, and the results appear as you type.

Or simply type a name

Plain words work as well. Search looks through all of your groups at once, at:

  • Titles. Typos are fine: gthub still finds GitHub.
  • Web addresses. google also finds Gmail, because it lives on mail.google.com.
  • Group names. design finds everything in your Design group.

The best matches come first, and your most visited bookmarks win ties. Each result shows the website, how many times you've visited it, when you saved it, and which group it belongs to.

Pro Tip: Press Enter right after typing to open the top result. Type gma, press Enter, and you're in Gmail without touching the mouse.

How to open search

The search box sits in the top-right corner of your new tab page. You can open it in three ways:

  • Press / on your keyboard
  • Press Ctrl+F (⌘+F on Mac). On your Speed Dial page this opens bookmark search instead of the browser's "Find in page".
  • Click the search box

Not sure what to type? Open search with an empty box and you'll see example searches you can click.

Example searches shown when the search box is empty

Note: The search box appears once you have at least one group besides Home. Don't see it? Create a group and it will show up.

Narrow it down with filters

Power users can be even more precise: type a filter followed by a value. You can combine as many as you like with regular words, for example docs group:work year:2025.

Filter What it does Example
group: Only bookmarks in that group group:design
site: Only bookmarks from that website site:google.com
year: Saved in a year, month or range year:2024, year:>2022
before: / after: Saved before or since a date after:2025-06
visits: Filter by number of visits visits:>100, visits:0
is: Popular, visited or never visited is:unvisited
sort: Change the order of results sort:name, sort:newest
"…" Match an exact phrase "google docs"
-word Leave out anything containing that word docs -google
Searching with group:design shows only bookmarks in the Design group

You don't have to remember these. Start typing a filter name and search suggests it for you:

Typing si suggests the site: and since: filters

Arrange your results

Above the results you'll find two controls:

  • Group by splits results into sections by Group, Month or Year, or shows one list with None. Speed Dial 2 picks a sensible option automatically. For example, date searches are grouped by month or year.
  • Grid or list view. The list view fits many more results on the screen.

Speed Dial 2 remembers your choices for next time.

Search results for last 3 months in list view, grouped by month

Pro Tip: Click the group label on any result to clear the search and open that group.

Keyboard shortcuts

/ or Ctrl+F Open search (⌘+F on Mac)
↑ ↓ Move through suggestions
Enter Use the highlighted suggestion, or open the top result
Tab Move from the search box into the results
Arrow keys Move between results
Ctrl+Enter Open the selected result in a new tab (⌘+Enter on Mac)
Esc Clear the search, then leave the search box

Search from any page with Jump

The same search is also available everywhere you browse, not just on the new tab page. Jump opens with one keyboard shortcut on any website and lets you find bookmarks, switch tabs and save the page you're on.