How to Find a Saved Link with Tuck Search and Filters

When you save an interesting link in Tuck on your iPhone or Android device, you might not always remember its exact title days or weeks later. If your search returns no results, you usually do not need to scroll through your entire library.

Before trying anything complicated, check these three quick fixes:

1. Shorten your search term. Tuck looks for partial matches inside the details it stores. A single distinctive word can work better than a full phrase.
2. Switch the filter back to All. If you previously tapped a specific source like YouTube or Web, Tuck only searches within that category until you change it.
3. Check the Archive filter. Archived links are tucked away from your active list and will never show up under All or Unread.

What Tuck Actually Searches

Tuck saves links to social media posts, videos, and web articles in one place. It does not download video files or save complete web pages for use without an internet connection.

Because of this, search checks only the stored text associated with each item:

• The saved title
• The brief body snippet
• The creator or author name
• The site name
• The domain name
• The collection name (if you added the link to one)

Tuck does not scan the full text of an article or the spoken words inside a video. For example, if you saved a travel recommendation for a restaurant in Kyoto, searching for Kyoto can locate the link if the city name appears in the stored title, domain, or snippet and the active filter includes it. If that specific word was never captured in those fields, searching for it will not return the item.

Tuck removes spaces at the beginning and end of your query before matching it against those fields. Keep your keywords short and test different terms, such as the creator’s handle or the website’s domain name, rather than words you only remember reading inside the article.

How Filters Narrow Your Search

At the top of your library, Tuck provides a search bar alongside a horizontal filter row: All, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Web, Unread, and Archive. On smaller phone screens, you may need to swipe the filter bar horizontally to see Unread and Archive.

You can select only one filter at a time. Tuck applies this filter before applying your search term:

• Platform filters restrict the pool first. If the YouTube filter is active, Tuck evaluates your search term only against your saved YouTube links. Web articles, Instagram posts, and other sources will not appear in the results, even if they match your keyword perfectly.
• Clearing the search bar leaves the filter active. Deleting your search text clears the keyword query, but it does not reset your selected filter. Always tap All to search across every active source.

Checking the Archive Filter

If you cannot locate a link under All or Unread, you might have archived it.

In Tuck, archiving a link is not the same as deleting it. Archiving simply cleans up your active library:

• All displays only your non-archived links across all sources.
• Unread displays only unread, non-archived links.
• Archive displays links you have marked as archived.

Because All and Unread exclude archived items entirely, an archived link will not appear in search results under All or Unread. To search your archived links, scroll the filter row to Archive, tap it, and type your search query there.

When a Link Is Missing or the Original Page Will Not Open

If a link does not appear even after searching with short keywords across both All and Archive, a few external factors may be at play:

• Missing metadata at save time: If the host website or platform did not provide an author name, snippet, or descriptive title when you saved the URL, Tuck has fewer fields to match against.
• Deleted or private content: Tuck keeps the URL you saved, but it relies on the original source for viewing. If a creator removes a video, or if an article is taken down or placed behind private permissions, finding the saved link will not guarantee that the original page remains accessible.

You do not need to assign links to specific folders right when you save them. You can always organize them later as your library grows. To learn more about organizing your items, see our guide on organizing links with collections. (Note: Visual layouts and button placements may vary slightly depending on your app version.)