Bash has a cool native feature, backward search in your history.

Zsh has the same feature but you need enable it.

Here is how to do it :

# Bacward search in the shell history with <C-r>
bindkey ^r  history-incremental-search-backward
setopt hist_ignore_all_dups

Just add the lines above in your ~/.zshrc and then source the file again :

source ~/.zshrc

Now you should be able to search in your history with CTRL+r exactly like you would do with bash.

‘Hope that helps.