A search index can replace the urge to bookmark everything
human_llm describes using Hister since May: knowing previously viewed pages remain searchable reduced the need to keep bookmarks they rarely revisited. A short piece of user feedback about confidence in retrieval changing browsing habits.
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“Thanks you for making Hister. I have been using it since May and find it immensely useful. It's a piece of mind to know”
Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach. Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline result previews, so information remains searchable even when the original page changes or disappears. It supports full text and semantic search, can run entirely on your own machine, and includes a web interface, command line tools…