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Description

This is a userscript that lets you mark questions as commonly used duplicate targets, and replaces the default question search in the close dialog with one that searches through your marked duplicate targets.

A new button is added below the "favorite" button:

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Once a question has been added to your collection, you can associate keywords with that question. These keywords are intended to make the question easier to find.

From that point on, you'll be able to find the marked question in the close dialog: enter image description here

Lastly, the script also adds a new tab to your profile page where you can manage your collection of duplicate targets: enter image description here

Installation

Bug reports and feature requests

Please post bug reports and feature requests on my GitHub issue tracker.

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    wow! excellent userscript! if there already are some collections it would be nice with some links to them.
    – Petter Friberg
    Commented Oct 11, 2018 at 14:55
  • @PetterFriberg FWIW, here's my personal collection of python duplicates so far.
    – Aran-Fey
    Commented Oct 11, 2018 at 15:34
  • Great work! May I suggest you move the source code off gist and into a repo, so that you can use the issues and pull request features of github. Using StackApps as an issue tracker will not be very fun.
    – wim
    Commented Oct 12, 2018 at 17:48
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    @wim I'm sure there won't be enough issues to warrant moving the project to a repo... Just kidding. Repo created and post updated.
    – Aran-Fey
    Commented Oct 12, 2018 at 18:21
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    @AndrasDeak The script should now work in GreaseMonkey. If any GreaseMonkey users still have problems, please report them here. Thanks!
    – Aran-Fey
    Commented Oct 13, 2018 at 19:30
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    Note that if you get a tooltip at the top of your Chrome browser saying "Apps, extensions, and user scripts cannot be added from this website" after clicking the install link, you can simply go to chrome://extensions and drag and drop the .js file that is linked to above.
    – alkasm
    Commented Feb 21, 2019 at 23:30
  • is there a way to go back to SO's native search in the close dialog? for example, right now my list has one entry, and the close dialog show only that single one, can't search site-wide anymore
    – blackgreen
    Commented Apr 3, 2022 at 8:11
  • Is it just me or is this script no longer working? I'm getting no new icon and instead an Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'classList') at refresh_in_collection_status in the console.
    – CherryDT
    Commented Jan 6, 2023 at 9:32

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Not sure which posts you should setup with this script? I made a quick SEDE query to help you find common duplicate target posts for your tag of choice.

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/909952/1132398/most-common-duplicate-targets-for-a-tag

TopItems it the max items you want back. Probably good to leave this less than 50.
TargetTag is the display name of the tag you want duplicate target posts to contain. For example, c# (rather than the URL encoded version).

The results are the most common duplicate targets for that tag, ordered by how often they are linked, descending order.

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