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 * [2016 roadmap milestone](http://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/roadmap.html): The
   projects that are [priorities for the Zulip project](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/roadmap.html).  These are great projects if you're looking to make an impact.
 
+Another way to find issues in Zulip is to take advantage of our
+"area:<foo>" convention in separating out issues.  We partition all of
+our issues into areas like admin, compose, emoji, hotkeys, i18n,
+onboarding, search, etc.  You can see this here:
+
+[https://github.com/zulip/zulip/labels]
+
+Click on any of the "area:" labels and you will see all the tickets
+related to your area of interest.
+
 If you're excited about helping with an open issue, just post on the
 conversation thread that you're working on it.  You're encouraged to
 ask questions on how to best implement or debug your changes -- the