Hello and welcome to Craft with Sarah. In this video we're going to be looking at a new feature
in Design Space and that is how to search your own projects. This is a feature that so many
people have requested over the years to be added into Design Space and in January 2021, it was!
This is really exciting because it's going to make it so much easier
for you to find your previous projects that you've made, rather than before, when you'd have to click
‘view all’ next to my projects and then wait for it to load and scroll through everything you've
ever made to try and find what you're looking for, now you can just search for it instead.
Make sure the drop-down is set to ‘my projects’ and then in ‘search’,
type in what you're looking for. Let's go for ‘card’ and hit Enter on the keyboard and now
this is showing me all of my own projects that I've made that I've designed over the years that
have ‘card’ in the name or the description or the tags. There's quite a lot, I do a lot with card!
If I try something a little bit more specific, let's go for ‘wolf’, you can see that's the only
project that I've got on there that has wolf in the name. This is picking up ‘wolf’ because I've
called it ‘CWS wolf’. If I type in ‘moon’ then it doesn't come up, even though there's a moon
on that wolf image, and that's because I don't use the word ‘moon’ anywhere on the wolf project.
If I bring this back up, if I wanted it to come up for ‘moon’,
I could do several things. I could change the title to include ‘moon’, so maybe ‘wolf howling
at moon’, or I could add the word ‘moon’ to the description. To make changes to the title
or description, click on the three little dots and then click ‘edit project details’.
You can then change the name if you want or you can add in the description.
This is really handy for the description because it means you can add more
words than you'd be able to fit in just the title.
If there's things that you think you might search for in the future, but you don't want to
add it in the title, you can put it in here, for example; for this one I could put ‘moon’ in here,
I could put ‘howling’, I could maybe put ‘dog’ - there's a whole range of words you
could think of to put in there if you think that's something you might search for at a later point.
To prove this is going to work, let's put ‘wolf
howling at moon’ in the description and press save and now let's close out of that. Now if I search
for ‘moon’, my wolf appears because it's picking up that description. One thing I'd suggest to make
it easier to search your projects in the future and to make sure they come up when you search,
is to come up with a list of keywords that describe projects that you frequently make.
For example, I do a lot of layered projects, so cardstock layered
designs like you can see on the screen here,
and over time when you're saving things you might not always remember to call it the same thing.
One week I make something and I call it a ‘layered design’, the next week I make something different
and call it ‘layering’ and then the next week I maybe call it ‘layers’. That's three
different words to essentially describe the same thing, which might mean that if a few
months down the line when I've completely forgotten what I called anything, I might
be typing in ‘layered’ into the search looking for something specific and it doesn't come up.
The reason it might not come up would be because I called it ‘layers’ instead of ‘layered’ or I
called it ‘layering’. So if there are words that you're going to associate with a particular type
of project that you make a lot, just choose one word, so let's say ‘layered’, for example,
and then make a spreadsheet somewhere on your computer or a word document or a note
on your desk, or just something that you're always going to know where it is that you can refer to.
Then every time you save your projects that are related to those words,
you can make sure you put that exact phrase in. This means that in the future when you
come back to it, it's going to be really easy to find all your projects of that particular type,
because you'll know exactly what word you need to put in there.
This was an overview of how to search your own projects in Cricut Design Space. I hope you
found it helpful and if you've got any questions, then leave me a comment below and let me know.
I think that this update the ability to search your projects has just been rolled
out to the mobile versions of design space too, so you should be able to do it on there
but if for any reason you can't then I'm sure the feature will be coming soon.
It does seem to be that Cricut update the desktop version first and then the mobile
one a little bit later on. So if it's not there yet, don't panic, I'm sure it'll be there soon.
Thank you for watching and happy crafting and please subscribe to my YouTube channel
for loads more Design Space tutorials, Cricut projects and free layered designs. Bye!