Is there some interface that makes the timeline usable? Maybe all these features exist and I just don't know where they are or how to use them but basically I f

Is there some interface that makes the timeline usable? Maybe all these features exist and I just don't know where they are or how to use them but basically I find facebook impossible to find anything but the last 3-10 days of stuff. If I want to find posts from 2013/11-2013/12 from me is there a clear way to do that? Search just seems to so much fail.