How do I perform effective searches?

Use the Tags section to select tags that you wish to apply to a particular package. You can use the Query field to enter package names, tag names, and file names. Don't worry; the auto completion will help you. Use the date filter to only retrieve packages created on certain dates. The logical operation is always "And" between your query items.

Example:

Query: "John, readme.txt" results in all packages which have "John" somewhere in the package AND "readme.txt" somewhere in the package.

* somewhere in the package = package name or tag name or contained file name

** Note that the match should be exact, so "re" will not retrieve "readme.txt". In order to assist you, you will get "readme.txt" as an option for the query when you type "re".