# 同时搜索公共主题和私信，并将此选项设为默认

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-public-topics-and-pms-simultaneously-and-set-this-option-as-the-default/71017
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** search
**Created:** [2017年九月29日 10:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-public-topics-and-pms-simultaneously-and-set-this-option-as-the-default/71017 "2017-09-29T10:53:24Z")
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### Author: ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [2017年九月29日 10:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-public-topics-and-pms-simultaneously-and-set-this-option-as-the-default/71017/1 "2017-09-29T10:53:24Z")

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Is there a way to search for both public topics and PMs at once – and make that the default behavior for my site?

User case: I often know I’ve talked with someone about something but I can’t recall whether it was a message or a topic. To find it, I sometimes have to do two searches. And that’s charitably assuming that I use the correct keywords, which isn’t always the case 🙂

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