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Search History

Every sourcing search you run is saved automatically, so you can revisit results, rerun queries on a schedule, and track who's newly matching your criteria over time.

Opening Search History#

Click Sourcer → History in the main navigation.

What's stored#

For each past search, Elly keeps:

  • The query and all filters exactly as you ran them.
  • The timestamp of when you ran it.
  • The result count at the time.
  • A name — either auto-generated from the filters, or something you set manually.

Candidates themselves are not duplicated across searches — Sourcer's underlying database is shared, so reruns reflect the current state of that database, not a frozen snapshot.

Click any entry in the history to see its details, then Rerun. The query is executed again against the current data, and you get a fresh result grid.

When you rerun, Elly highlights candidates who are new since the last run — people who weren't in your previous results but match now. This is the main reason to rerun searches: catching fresh matches as the database grows or as people change jobs.

To tweak filters without losing the original:

  1. Open the search from history.
  2. Click Duplicate (or the equivalent "Clone" action).
  3. Adjust filters on the copy and save it with a new name.

Editing the original search directly is also supported, but cloning is usually safer — it preserves the original for comparison.

Exporting results#

From any past search's result grid, click Export to download a CSV.

  • Candidates you've previewed are included with full profile data.
  • Candidates you haven't opened are included with basic card-level info only.
  • Enriched contact info is included if you've enriched the candidate.

Export respects any selection or filtering you apply within the results grid — narrow the list first if you don't want everything.

Cleaning up#

From the history list, use the menu on each entry to:

  • Rename — Give a clearer name to an auto-named search.
  • Delete — Remove the saved search. Deleting a search doesn't delete the candidates themselves; it only removes the saved query.

Next steps#

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