How-to guides
How-to guides for your browser history. One task at a time.
Short History Monk tutorials, each with numbered steps and screenshots taken from the extension.
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01
Find pages
Search every page you have visited by a word, a site or a date.
Find a website you forgot the name of
Type one word you remember from the page, even misspelled, and open it again from your browsing history.
Read the guideSearch history on one website
Type site: and a word to search only one site's pages, or add a second site: to search two.
Read the guideExclude a site from your search
Add -site: to drop a whole site from your results, or -title: and -url: to drop pages by word.
Read the guideSearch by title or address
Match words in page titles with title:, parts of addresses with url:, or a whole phrase in quotes.
Read the guideSearch history by date
Pick days on the calendar, or type after:2026-10-05 before:2026-10-09, to search a date range.
Read the guideSearch history by time of day
Search yesterday from 9 AM to 5 PM, or every page you opened at 9 PM on any day.
Read the guideSearch history with regex
Type a pattern between slashes to match titles and addresses that plain words can't.
Read the guideFind your most visited pages
Sort by Visits to see what you open most, or use visits:>10 to keep only your regulars.
Read the guideCombine search filters
Mix site:, title:, after: and more in one search, like GitHub pull requests since yesterday.
Read the guideSee your history for one day
Read one day from top to bottom, split into sessions, and jump to any day from the calendar.
Read the guideSee every website you visited
List every website you visited with its pages and visits, then click one to see its pages.
Read the guideSearch history with the keyboard
Open, search, move and open pages from the keyboard, with every shortcut in one table.
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02
Delete and clean up
Remove a site, a search or the clutter, with a confirm step every time.
Delete all history from one site
Tick a site in Sites, click Delete and confirm. Every page from it goes, older visits too.
Read the guideDelete a site's history from the page
Right-click any page, choose History Monk and delete that site's history, or just that page.
Read the guideDelete the pages a search finds
Search for a word, a site or a date, then delete every page in the result in two clicks.
Read the guideDelete the last hour of history
Delete what you browsed in the last hour, 24 hours or 7 days, after a look at what's in it.
Read the guideRemove duplicate pages from history
Delete the extra copies of pages saved with tracking tags or a #fragment, and keep the best one.
Read the guideClear search pages from history
Delete the Google, Bing and YouTube search pages from your history and keep what you read.
Read the guideProtect a site from deletion
List the sites you never want to lose, and no delete in History Monk can touch them.
Read the guideHide a site from your history
Keep a site out of search, Sites, Analytics and Cleanup without deleting a single page.
Read the guideDelete a search and its pages
Delete one web search and every page you opened from it, like a gift search, in two clicks.
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03
Get tabs back
Bring back what you closed, every page a search led to, or what is open on your other devices.
Reopen a closed tab
See the tabs you closed, newest first, find one by a word and click to open it again.
Read the guideSee tabs from your other devices
See the tabs open on your phone and other computers, and open one here with a click.
Read the guideReopen every page from a search
Find a past web search and reopen every page you opened from it, in one click.
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04
See your habits
Your days, your patterns and your week, worked out on your computer.
See when you browse the most
A weekday-by-hour heatmap of your browsing. Click a cell to see what you opened then.
Read the guideSee your top searches
See the searches you repeat most, read from your own history, and click one to find its pages.
Read the guideSee which sites you visit most
See your top sites, which ones are rising or fading, and this week against the last.
Read the guideShare your week in browsing
Get your last 7 days on one card, then copy it as an image or text, download it or share it.
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05
Export and make it yours
Take your browsing history with you, and make the app look your way.
Export your history to CSV
Save all your history, one search or only the ticked pages as CSV, JSON or HTML.
Read the guideTurn on dark mode
Pick Dark, Dracula, Nord or one of 16 dark themes, or let it follow your computer.
Read the guideChange text size and date format
Pick a bigger text size, compact rows, your clock and how dates are written.
Read the guideChange the History Monk shortcut
Change Alt+Shift+H to any keys you like on your browser's extension shortcuts page.
Read the guideCopy links from your history
Tick pages, then copy their addresses, their titles, or both, with one right-click.
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