Quick history search
Type a word you remember from a page’s title or address, and History Monk lists the matching pages from your browsing history before you finish typing. Get a letter wrong and it still finds the page.
Free for 7 days No account Chrome, Edge and Firefox
Misspell a word and History Monk corrects it from the words in your own browsing history.
In Chrome and Edge it replaces the History page, so your usual History shortcut opens it. ⌥⇧H works from any tab.
A word from the title, part of the address or the site name. The list updates with every key you press.
Press ↵ for the top result, or use ↑ ↓ to pick another. ⌘↵ opens it in a background tab.
In detail
Three things make it fast and forgiving: it fixes typos using your own history, it ranks results the way you would, and it starts answering before all of your history has loaded.
When an exact search finds fewer than 200 pages, History Monk looks for the closest real word among the words in your own page titles and site names. It adds those pages below the exact matches and tells you what it searched for.
reatc finds react.Best scores each page on where your words appear. A word in the title counts for more than one in the address, a whole word beats part of a word, and recent pages get a small lift. Search result pages are ranked a little lower, so the page you actually read comes first.
History Monk reads your history in growing batches, starting with the newest 2,000 pages, so results show up while older pages are still loading. It keeps up to 100,000 pages in memory and searches all of them with every key you press.
When few pages match, History Monk also tries the closest words from your own history. reatc finds React and says so.
Searchable 80 ms after it opens, with up to 100,000 pages loaded and no lag as you type.
Put words in quotes, like "release notes", to find them side by side and in order.
Every word must appear in the page title or its address, in any order. Capitals and accents are ignored.
Sort by best match, most recent or most visited. Newest groups pages under Today, Yesterday and each date.
Your browsing history is searched inside the extension. Nothing is sent to a server.
FAQ
Just type it. When an exact search finds few pages, History Monk also searches the closest word from your own history, one letter off for short words and two for longer ones, and shows a note like: Also showing results for react.
Yes. In Chrome and Edge it takes over the History page, so Ctrl+H, or ⌘Y on a Mac, opens it. In Firefox, open it from the toolbar button or with Alt+Shift+H.
As far back as your browser keeps it. Chrome and Edge keep about 90 days. History Monk loads up to 100,000 of your most recent pages, and you can lower that in Settings.