You open LinkedIn to check what your network is actually saying, and the home feed hands you boosted posts, “suggested” strangers, and a thing someone liked three days ago. When you’re sourcing, that noise costs you time. LinkedZen skips it. One click opens LinkedIn on a search URL that shows only posts from your 1st-degree connections, the people you follow, and yourself — last 7 days, newest first. No algorithm deciding what you see.
The whole trick lives in four LinkedIn content-search params stitched into one URL: datePosted="past-week", keywords=., postedBy=["first","me","following"], and sortBy="date_posted". The single dot in keywords=. is the non-obvious part — drop it and LinkedIn returns nothing. With it, you get a flat reverse-chronological stream of your real network, the way feeds worked before they got optimized.
Click the green button to open it now, or drag that same button to your bookmarks bar for a permanent one-click shortcut from anywhere — it shows the LinkedIn favicon labeled >_ FST · LinkedZen. (Bookmarks bar hidden? Ctrl+Shift+B, or ⌘+Shift+B on Mac.)
Honest limit: this rides on LinkedIn’s current search syntax. If they change those params, the link breaks and there’s nothing we can do from our end — ping us on the newsletter and we’ll publish a fix. A Chrome extension that auto-redirects every LinkedIn load is planned for V1.5.