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The most satisfying is star hopping. Used it for many years to find many hundreds of objects. Essential is a good finder or "hopping" scope. I used (and still do use) a 15 x 60mm correct image 45 degree finder) This makes life a lot easier tracing the star patterns that I note from Sky Atlas or Uranometria.
Since 2009 and buying a goto mount I don't use the star hopping as much as I use to. What I do sometimes is to use goto to send the telescope to a catalogued object (NGC, IC etc) then use hopping techniques to get to a nearby uncatalogued object.
With my 18" I mainly use push to on the Argo-Navis. The goto servo motors take longer to get the object in the field of view.
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