Gists Don't Have Search or Categories/Lists

[Justintime50]

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Gists are a great place to store snippets or short guides while also being a terrible place to navigate. There is no way to search through my various pages of Gists nor is there a way to organize them into lists or categories like repos can. This was initially brought up at GitHub Universe where I would have hoped they'd make some announcement about Gists getting some love.

Additionally, it's weird to me that Gists live under a separate UI instead of the unified GitHub UI.

In a perfect world, Gists would have search, organization, and be in the same UI as repos and users are instead of needing to "go back to GitHub".

Also, Gists aren't even a category (yet are a top-level product of your platform) for this discussion forum, so I thought this was the next best place for it.

[monperrus]

There is no way to search through my various pages of Gists

This can be done with user:Justintime50 as additional search expression, eg https://gist.github.com/search?q=user%3AJustintime50

Some documentation at: https://gist.github.com/santisbon/2e1e9c69b58bdf4c9624219a44d40d83

[heaths]

While I seem to recall gists being searchable for quite sometime, at least as of 2024-10-15 they are. But this could still be improved:

I just added filtering support to gh gist list because I didn't know qualifiers existed for gists (and there's no REST or GraphQL API I can find for programmatic use).

It's easy to see why someone wouldn't know they exist: compare the top search bar for normal github.com repos:

To searching gists:

(The text input box had focus but no window was shown.)

At the very least it would be great to see a popup window / drop-down menu / whatever that has a link to the qualifiers you can use to search gists.