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title: "Search and Discovery: Finding Your Stacks and Cards"
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# Search and Discovery: Finding Your Stacks and Cards

## Search and Discovery: Finding Your Stacks and Cards

Stacklist gives you multiple ways to find content: keyword search, semantic search, and trending discovery.

### Keyword Search
Search across stack names, card titles, notes, and URLs. Use this when you know exactly what you're looking for:
- Search a specific topic: "coffee roasters"
- Search a card title: "best espresso machines"
- Filter by category: search within a category hub

### Semantic Search
Don't remember the exact keywords? Use semantic search to find conceptually similar stacks and cards:
- Find stacks "like" another stack you know
- Discover cards related to a specific card
- Get recommendations based on meaning, not just keywords

Semantic search uses AI embeddings to find related content even without exact keyword matches.

### Card vs Stack Search
- Card search: finds specific links and notes within stacks
- Stack search: finds entire collections and curators

Use card search when you want a specific resource. Use stack search when you want to discover a curator or topic area.

### Trending Stacks
Check what's trending across the Stacklist community:
- Trending this week
- Trending this month
- All-time popular stacks

Trending stacks are sorted by views, AI crawler hits, likes, and shares.

### Filtering by Category
Every stack belongs to a category (travel, food, books, technology, etc.). Browse category hubs to:
- Discover curators in your niche
- Find the best stacks on a topic
- Build authority by featuring your stacks in the right category

### Search Tips
- Use specific keywords for exact matches
- Use semantic search for exploratory discovery
- Filter by category to narrow results
- Look at trending stacks to see what's resonating
- Tag your cards consistently so they cluster in search results