Finding Documents in the Community

Search by words and tags, sort what you find, then make a document your own.

The Community is a gallery of documents people have shared: architecture diagrams, retrospectives, roadmaps, wireframes, sketches and more. You don't need an account to browse it, like a document or make your own copy.

Searching

One search box holds everything you are looking for, written as words:

  • Plain words search the title, description and tags, for example checkout flow.
  • #tag finds documents with that tag. Add several, like #aws #event-driven, and a document has to have all of them.
  • category:planning keeps to one subject, such as Planning, Workshops or Design & Wireframes.
  • sort:loved puts the most liked documents first, and sort:copied the most copied. Without one, the newest come first.
  • is:mine shows only the documents you have shared (see Your own shares).

You can type these yourself, or use the buttons inside the right of the search box, which write the same words for you:

Choose Category to keep to one subject, or All Categories to see everything again.

Choose Tags to see the most used tags. Pick one to add its #tag to your search; pick it again to take it out.

Choose the sort button (it reads Newest to start) to order by Most Loved or Most Copied.

#aws sort:lovedMy SharesCategoryTags1Most Loved♥ 48Copied 9♥ 31Copied 4♥ 17Copied 2
One search box: words and #tags on the left, with My Shares, Category, Tags and the sort inside its right edge.

On smaller screens the buttons show just their icons. The cross just after your text clears the words, tags and category you searched for; the sort and My Shares stay as they are. Your search stays in the page address, so you can bookmark it or send it to someone.

On a document's own page, choose any of its tags to search the gallery for that tag.

Your own shares

Signed in, choose My Shares in the search box to see only the documents you have shared. Above them, Your Shares adds up how many you have shared, and how many likes and copies they have had altogether, so you can see how they are doing. Each card shows its own likes and copies, and you can still search, filter and sort within them.

A document taken out of the Community after reports shows here marked Hidden; only you can see it. Choose it to open the document in the editor.

Looking at a document

Open a card to see the document's page: a live preview you can pan, zoom and page through, the author's description and its tags. Open Document shows it full screen. Documents in the Community are always read-only, and their comments are private.

Liking a document

Choose the heart on a card or on a document's page to show the author you liked it. Choose it again to take your like back. Likes are kept per browser, and Most Loved sorts by them.

Making your own copy

Choose Make a Copy on a document's page, or in the bar across the top of an open document. A copy of the whole document opens in the editor as your own document, with every tab. Change anything you like; the original never changes. Each person who copies a document counts once towards its copy count. You don't need an account: as a guest the copy belongs to this browser's guest identity, and it moves into your account if you sign up later.

A document's page also lists More Like This: other documents in the same category to look at next.

Reporting a document

If a document is spam, offensive, shows someone's personal information or isn't the author's to share, choose Report on its page. In Report This Document, pick a reason (Spam, Offensive, Personal Information, Copyright or Something Else), add a note of up to 300 characters if it helps, and send it with Send Report. A document reported by three different people, on different networks, is hidden automatically, for good. Nobody reviews posts by hand: the reports decide.

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