# How-to guides
Source: https://nordvec.com/cs/docs/guides/how-to

Step-by-step recipes for the common API tasks, from searching and listing documents to pushing your own.



Each guide takes one task from the first request to a working result, with the
request fields it uses and the response you get back. For every field of every
operation, see the [API reference](/docs/api).

- [Push documents from your own systems](https://nordvec.com/cs/docs/guides/how-to/push-documents): Create a datasource, push documents into it with an indexing API key, choose who can read them, and pause or delete it when the source changes.
- [Filter and refine search](https://nordvec.com/cs/docs/guides/how-to/filter-search): Narrow a document search with datasource, provider, type and date filters, and read the ranked results.
- [List and retrieve documents](https://nordvec.com/cs/docs/guides/how-to/list-documents): Page through your documents with cursor pagination, filter and sort them, and fetch one or many by id.