Docs

Finding things

Search covers titles, body text, author names, and tags. It tolerates typos – nueral finds neural – and ranks by relevance rather than recency.

Quote a phrase to require it exactly:

"spectral sequence"

Without quotes, those become two separate terms and you will get results containing either.

Filters

Search results and browsing surfaces can be narrowed by:

  • Type – lecture, seminar, problems, theory, and the rest. See Publications for what each covers.
  • Language – the language a publication is written in, which is not the same as the language of the interface you are reading.
  • Category – the academic taxonomy.
  • Author.
  • AI disclosure – set a maximum level you are willing to read. Setting it to "no AI" shows only work the author declared as their own.

Filters combine. Narrowing by category and language at once is usually more effective than a longer search query.

Browsing instead of searching

Search is for when you know what you want. When you do not, the home feed mixes recent and popular work with people worth following, and you can sort it by recency, popularity, or what is currently getting attention.

Following categories is what makes this useful. An account that follows nothing gets a generic feed.

Following people

Follow someone and their new work appears in your feed. There is no approval step and no notification requirement – following is public in the sense that follower counts are visible, but it is not a mutual relationship you have to negotiate.

Some parts of a profile are visible only to mutual connections. See Your profile.

Your library

Bookmark anything worth returning to; bookmarks are private and collected in your library, which also keeps your reading history.

If you want to share a set of publications rather than keep it for yourself, that is a collection, not a bookmark – see Collections.

If your work is not being found

Almost always this is categories and tags. Search indexes your full text, but category and tag filters are how people browsing a field arrive at work they were not specifically looking for.

Beyond that: a descriptive title beats a clever one, the first paragraph is what shows in result lists, and a linked ORCID connects your existing published record to your profile.