Search and history in SQL Developer

Should be obvious, but I just discovered that it is much easier to change preferences if you search for it in the search field instead of wandering around in the Preferences GUI looking for the place where you can set it:

And it is pretty fast, try to look for the place where you choose the OCI client, just write OCI in the field. And similarly, if you think you wrote some smart code a few days ago, just search for it in the SQL history:

If you can't find it, it is because you have forgotten to increase Days to keep history from 7 which seems to be default. Go back to preferences and crank it up. 30 days, why not?