Find saves fast

You shouldn’t have to remember where you put something — that’s Bredbox’s job. When you want a save back, try these in order.

Use search first

Press / anywhere in the app, or use the search icon in the header. Search is the fastest option when you remember even a small piece of what you saved.

Search works best with three or more characters and can match:

Titles
Descriptions
The full text of extracted articles

Because search covers the article text itself, you can find a save from a phrase you remember reading, not just the title. Try the shortest phrase you are confident about instead of typing a full sentence.

Narrow the library by structure

If search is too broad, switch to the structure you already built:

Open a collection when you know the project or topic.
Open a tag when you know the label you used.
Browse a content type — Articles, Videos, or Recipes — when you know what kind of item you saved.
Use Favorites, Archive, or Highlights when you remember the save’s status instead of its title.
Open Reading when you know you started the article — it lists everything with reading progress, most recent first.

See Browse your library views for the full list.

Move quickly with the keyboard

The library is fully keyboard-navigable: J and K move through saves, Enter opens one, and G-prefixed shortcuts jump between views (G I for Inbox, G F for Favorites, and so on). See Keyboard shortcuts for the full map, or press ? in the app.

Look through older saves

If the save is not near the top of your main list, keep paging through your library — Bredbox shows saves in pages instead of loading everything at once. G N and G P flip between pages.

When search misses something

Try these fixes in order:

Search for fewer words.
Search for the site name instead of the article title.
Open the collection where you expected the save to live.
Check the tag you probably used.
Check Archive and Trash — the save may have been put away.
Give the save a little more time if you added it recently and article processing is still finishing.

Keep your library searchable

You don’t need an elaborate system — search does most of the work. If you like a little structure:

Put project-based saves into collections.
Use tags for status and cross-cutting ideas.
Let everything else just live in your library, findable by search.