Search & Recent Places

DevStride has one search, in the box at the top of every screen (Search or jump to...). Clicking the box and pressing Cmd/Ctrl + K open the same search: there is no separate search window. It is the quickest way back to something you were just working on, and the quickest way to anything else whose name or number you know.

Open the search

• Click or tap the box at the top of the screen, or move to it with Tab.
• Press Cmd/Ctrl + K anywhere in DevStride. The box shows the shortcut for your computer (Cmd+K on a Mac, Ctrl+K elsewhere).

Cmd/Ctrl + K is left alone while you are typing in a field, so in the description editor it still adds a link, and while a dialog is open. Press it again in the search box to close the search and go back to where you were.

The results open in a panel under the box. Click anywhere outside it, or Tab away, to close it.

Pick up where you left off

With nothing typed, the panel lists your Recent places, the most recent first: the pages, work items, workstreams, board folders, boards, cycles and Gantts you opened (and items you created) in this organization. It shows the newest 20. Below them:

• See your full history opens History in My Account: every place you opened in the last 30 days, day by day.
• All Pages lists every page you can open, by the names the sidebar uses.

Your recent places are kept with your account, not in your browser, so they follow you to another browser or computer. Each organization has its own list. A place that has since been deleted drops off the list.

Search by name

Type at least two characters. DevStride searches as you pause and lists what matches, in sections:

Pages, work items, workstreams, boards and cycles show their first five matches each; board folders and Gantts list every match. Within a section, places you opened recently come first, then names where your words appear earliest. The button at the right of the panel's footer switches between these sections and one combined list, and DevStride remembers your choice.

Include archived, in the footer, adds archived work items and workstreams to the results, each marked Archived. It is off until you switch it on, and DevStride remembers the setting in this browser.

Jump by item number

Type an item number and press Enter:

• I14583 (or i14583) opens item I14583 straight away; F42 opens workstream F42.
• A bare 14583 finds item I14583 and lists it first. Enter opens it if it is the only result; otherwise the first Enter highlights it and the second opens it.

A number needs no minimum length: 7 finds I7.

Narrow to one kind with

Type # on its own to see the filters, or start your search with one:

Then a space and your words, for example #board Urgent or #roadmap 2026. With only the filter typed, the panel lists your recent places of that kind, such as Recent Boards. A filtered search shows more than five matches: up to 50 work items, workstreams, boards or cycles, and every matching page.

Keyboard

Choosing a work item opens it in the item drawer; choosing a workstream opens it on the Map. Without access to the Map, both open in the drawer, and an archived workstream always opens in its drawer.

On a phone

On a narrow screen the search box fills the header, and the results fill the screen below it. There is no Esc key, so the × in the box closes the search; on a larger screen the × only empties the box and shows your recent places again.