Words

bitcoin mining

Both words, anywhere in the event.

"exact phrase"

Those words, in that order.

-word

Everything except results with that word.

People

Start typing a name after the colon and pick from the list — the page writes the key.

from:npub1…

Only what that person wrote.

to:npub1…

Only events that mention them.

to:note1…

Only events that cite that event — its replies, its reactions, the labels written on it. An naddr1… asks the same about an article, an app or a list.

Days

Whole days, in your own timezone, and a calendar opens as you type one.

since:2026-08-06

Written that day or after.

until:2026-08-06

Written that day or before — the whole of it, midnight to midnight.

Topics, labels and groups

#hashtag

Events tagged with that topic, plus the labels and the comments written on it.

label:review/app

The NIP-32 labels carrying that mark — the labels themselves, not what they name. Add a to: to read the ones written on one thing.

group:id

A NIP-29 relay group. Type a few letters and pick one; the ids are not memorable.

Things people commented on

Comments about something that lives outside Nostr, found by what it is (NIP-73).

site:example.com/page

A web page.

isbn:9780593330005

A book.

doi:10.1000/182

A paper.

geo:u4pruyd

A place, as a geohash.

isan:0000-0000-401A-0000-7

A film.

podcast:guid:guid

A podcast feed…

podcast:item:guid:guid

…one episode of it…

podcast:publisher:guid

…or everything from its publisher.

Ranking and order

These reach the relay as typed. The Filters button writes every one of them except the last.

sort:recent

Newest first, ignoring how well anything matched.

sort:rank

Most trusted authors first. sort:rank:asc turns it upside down.

sort:followers

Most followed authors first.

sort:text

Text match alone, trust not consulted. With none of these you get the default: best match.

observer:hex pubkey

Rank through that pubkey's web of trust instead of your own — the 64-character hex key, since an npub1… here is ignored rather than refused. Signing in does this for you, and "Ranking as" under Filters writes it. Scores are public, so it needs no signature: signed out, this is the one way to a ranked answer.

include:spam

Lift the trust floor: also show what your web of trust does not rank. It is also how a search that has no lens at all asks for the whole corpus — this relay answers a read that neither names an observer nor says this with auth-required: rather than quietly handing over an unranked index.

filter:rank:gte:50

Raise it instead — drop authors ranking below that, 0 to 100.