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I configured Reddit as a "Lense" (similar to what Kagi uses for things like searching across Forums, or news). With that, now I have a simple toggle at the top

by xaro 3y ago

I configured Reddit as a "Lense" (similar to what Kagi uses for things like searching across Forums, or news). With that, now I have a simple toggle at the top of Kagi which allows me to immediately turn a search into a Reddit search.

MostlyStable 3y ago
oooh, I didn't know I could do this. Doing it now. Thanks!
dvngnt_ 3y ago
i just pinned reddit, wikipedia to top so my searches will usually display them first.
- paradox460 3y ago
  Thats the best way, because then what you're looking for gets surfaced rather organically, and its right there, so you don't have to go out of your way to find it. Generally I've started using bangs and lenses for changing searches in a wholly categorical manner. I.e. the !i bang for image search. I did change the !p bang from podcasts to activating the programming lens, because programming tends to have a lot of terms that overlap with more general language, and so sometimes its nice to swap in and out of that mode.
throwup238 3y ago
I did the same and added a custom bang so I can use it from the address bar directly (!r pointing at https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 where 8 is the lens id). Probably least a third of my queries are preceded by an !r now. A third of the rest are now question mark queries that activates their AI fast answer. It's like the google info box on steroids since it can answer any query and it works with lenses to restrict the fast answer to specific domains.
- flexagoon 3y ago
  By the way, you don't have to manually add a custom bang and point it to your lens id, you can configure a bang for the lens directly in the settings of your lens
  - freediver 3y ago
    You can also define r as a “quick bang” which means you can just use “r” without !
EasyMark 3y ago
I've been using site:reddit.com for ages now on ddg.
mmcclure 3y ago
It took me way too long to start using Lenses. I've been a Kagi user for a while now, but lenses never really seemed that useful. The unlock for me is that I'm often looking for 3D models, so I added one for all the usual 3D model suspects (Thangs, Printables, etc).
- dillydogg 3y ago
  I similarly added one that is for the recipe websites I like the most. It was a game changer!
- pbronez 3y ago
  Do you find that works better than using Thangs directly? It’s a meta-search engine itself.
- ParetoOptimal 3y ago
  I have !sgn to search sourcegraph for nix code.
  - jdorfman 3y ago
    Forgive my ignorance. I'm curious as to how that works.
DJHenk 3y ago
For extra fun, add a rewrite rule to change every result from reddit.com to old.reddit.com: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html
BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y ago
can you share your reddit's lense?

by xaro 3y ago

MostlyStable 3y ago

oooh, I didn't know I could do this. Doing it now. Thanks!

dvngnt_ 3y ago

i just pinned reddit, wikipedia to top so my searches will usually display them first.

paradox460 3y ago
Thats the best way, because then what you're looking for gets surfaced rather organically, and its right there, so you don't have to go out of your way to find it. Generally I've started using bangs and lenses for changing searches in a wholly categorical manner. I.e. the !i bang for image search. I did change the !p bang from podcasts to activating the programming lens, because programming tends to have a lot of terms that overlap with more general language, and so sometimes its nice to swap in and out of that mode.

throwup238 3y ago

I did the same and added a custom bang so I can use it from the address bar directly (!r pointing at https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 where 8 is the lens id). Probably least a third of my queries are preceded by an !r now. A third of the rest are now question mark queries that activates their AI fast answer. It's like the google info box on steroids since it can answer any query and it works with lenses to restrict the fast answer to specific domains.

flexagoon 3y ago
By the way, you don't have to manually add a custom bang and point it to your lens id, you can configure a bang for the lens directly in the settings of your lens
- freediver 3y ago
  You can also define r as a “quick bang” which means you can just use “r” without !

EasyMark 3y ago

I've been using site:reddit.com for ages now on ddg.

mmcclure 3y ago

It took me way too long to start using Lenses. I've been a Kagi user for a while now, but lenses never really seemed that useful. The unlock for me is that I'm often looking for 3D models, so I added one for all the usual 3D model suspects (Thangs, Printables, etc).

dillydogg 3y ago
I similarly added one that is for the recipe websites I like the most. It was a game changer!
pbronez 3y ago
Do you find that works better than using Thangs directly? It’s a meta-search engine itself.
ParetoOptimal 3y ago
I have !sgn to search sourcegraph for nix code.
- jdorfman 3y ago
  Forgive my ignorance. I'm curious as to how that works.

DJHenk 3y ago

For extra fun, add a rewrite rule to change every result from reddit.com to old.reddit.com: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html

BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y ago

can you share your reddit's lense?