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I asked about something on U&L some time ago. How do I search for my own question, based on a word in the subject line? For the search - I only want results with questions from me. Can that be done, if so how?

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  • Since this is not a discussion forum, but a questions and answers site, I changed "posts started by me" to "questions from me" in the text. If this misrepresents what you intended with your Meta question, then please clarify it. Commented Nov 5, 2023 at 6:29

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It's not too bad, once you know where to look! The way I usually do it is to:

  1. go to the profile, e.g. mine or yours ("current" magic link)
  2. the search box near the top will have inserted text, such as user:117549. Add to that: is:q title:word-to-search-for, such as is:q title:systemd; the resulting search will be limited to questions that you asked that have the given word in the title.

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/help/searching for more search operators. Hat tip to Glorfindel's answer for the /current link.

Kusalananda points out a shorter version:

  1. In the search box, enter: user:me is:q title:word-to-search-for
  2. There is no step 2! :)
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    user:me also works, no need to find the right user ID number. Commented Nov 5, 2023 at 6:31

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