How to find issues that at some point has been assigned to you?

Question

We use Jira extensively in our project, but I often have a hard time finding issues, that I know, I have been working on earlier. Usually, if some case is reported, that see

Answer 1

This is meanwhile possible by means of the JIRA Query Language (JQL) operator 'WAS', which has been introduced in JIRA 4.3 and extended in JIRA 4.4 to cover assignees and reporters as well, for example:

project = "Angry Nerds" and (assignee was 'johnsmith' or reporter was 'johnsmith')