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## Browse your data
Alternatively, you can dive right in to exploring the data in Metabase by clicking on one of the databases at the bottom of the home page or clicking the **Browse data** button in the top nav bar, and then selecting a database and clicking on one of its tables to see it. You can also click on the bolt icon on any table to see an automatic exploration of its data. Give it a try!
Alternatively, you can dive right in to exploring the data in Metabase by clicking on one of the databases at the bottom of the home page or clicking the **Browse data** button in the side nav bar, and then selecting a database and clicking on one of its tables to see it. You can also hover over any table and click on the bolt icon to see an automatic exploration of the table's data. Give it a try!
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If your teammates are cool, they'll have pinned some important dashboards or questions within your collections; if so, those pinned items will show up as cards at the top of the collection.
Your teammates might have pinned some important dashboards or questions within your collections; if so, those pinned items will show up as cards at the top of the collection.
Collections have a list of any other items that are saved within them, and you can see what other collections are saved inside of the current one by checking out the navigation sidebar.
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[Dashboards][dashboards] are a set of questions and text cards that you want to be able to refer to regularly.
If you click on a part of a chart, such as a bar in a bar chart, or a dot on a line chart, you'll see a the **Action menu**, with actions you can take to dive deeper into that result, branch off from it in a different direction, or see automatic insights to [X-ray](x-rays.md) the data.
If you click on a part of a chart, such as a bar in a bar chart, or a dot on a line chart, you'll see the **Action menu**, with actions you can take to dive deeper into that result, branch off from it in a different direction, or see automatic insights to [X-ray](x-rays.md) the data.
In this example of orders by product category per month, clicking on a dot on this line chart gives us the ability to:
In this example of orders by product category per month, clicking on a data point on this line chart gives us the ability to:
-**See these Orders**: See a list of the orders for a particular month
-**See these Orders**: See a list of the orders for a particular month.
-**See this month by week**.
-**Break out by ...**: See things like the Gizmo orders in June 2023 broken out by the status of the customer (e.g., `new` or `VIP`). Different charts will have different breakout options, such as **Location** and **Time**.
-**Automatic insights**: See orders for a particular category over a shorter time range.
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## Search
Use the search bar to find dashboards, questions, collections, subscriptions, and alerts. You can select from the typeahead's dropdown results, or hit enter to view a search results page. You can also activate the search bar from anywhere by pressing the `/` key.
Use the search bar to find dashboards, questions, collections, subscriptions, and alerts. You can select a result from the dropdown, or hit enter to view a search results page. You can also activate the search bar from anywhere by pressing the `/` key.
Searches take into account items’ titles, descriptions, and other metadata — you can even search the contents of your SQL queries. For example, you can search for things like `SELECT escape_pod FROM mothership` and find that one question you worked on six months ago. The results will display which collection each item is saved in, what kind of object it is, and whether it’s pinned. Note that you'll only ever see items in collections you have permission to view.
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**Bookmarks** are a way to quickly get back to things you visit frequently (or have been working on recently). Bookmarked items show up in the main navigation sidebar above [collections][collections].
To bookmark an item, look for the **ribbon** icon. If you don't immediately see the ribbon, open up the settings for that item. You can bookmark:
To bookmark an item, look for the **ribbon** icon in the upper right corner of the item's page. You can bookmark:
- Questions (ribbon's in the editing sidebar)
- Models (ribbon's in the editing sidebar)
- Dashboards (ribbon's in the **...** menu)
- Collections (ribbon's in the upper right of the collection's page)
- Questions
- Models
- Dashboards
- Collections
When viewing a collection, you can also click on the **...** next to an item to add or remove a bookmark from the item.
To add or remove a bookmark from an item, click on the three-dot menu (**...**) next to the item in the collection.
