Quick Jira search
An average tech company nowadays usually uses Jira for issue/project tracking, Confluence as knowledge base and GitHub for source code repositories. Depending on company size and age, this trio may contain an extensive body of knowledge. But searching it can be daunting: visiting all three and typing your search keywords is not that quick. For that I have one of my favourite “office life” hacks: custom browser searches from the address bar.
All you need is to create a bookmark to search URL, replace search term with %s
and give bookmark a keyword(i.e. shortcut).
E.g. Jira quick search URL is:
https://<my-organisation>.atlassian.net/secure/QuickSearch.jspa?searchString=%s
Say if the shortcut is j, then typing in j something something will show
the search result page. What’s more - typing j <ticket-id> will quickly open
the ticket page.
In case of GitHub the search URL is:
https://github.com/search?type=code&q=org%3A<my-organisation>+%s
This leads directly to code search results page in the given organisation. I often end up using this to find how one or another data attribute is used across the multiple services in the organisation.
All in all these shortcuts do help to cut quite a bit of time when digging context for some long forgotten legacy code pieces.