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Instantly Search Devotee With a Bookmarklet
A one click shortcut into the ExpressionEngine addon directory, built before its search got fast.
Like all ExpressionEngine developers, I have become dependent on the amazing resource called Devotee. Unfortunately, searching it is not the fastest and as we all know, time is money.
Update: The search functionality at Devotee is now quite fast. Ryan talks about the search upgrade in a post on the site. We switched from the old search functionality to Low Search. Low Search uses the native full text search capability of MySQL, which means it uses a lot fewer queries and is blazing fast. We modified it to meet our needs, among other things adding the ability to manually weight certain entries and categories, and we will be pushing at least some of those modifications back upstream to Low.
Inspired by a handy bookmarklet I had seen elsewhere, I created one that searches Devotee from any page. Just drag the bookmarklet link to your browser toolbar and click it when you need to look something up.