I think its kinda cool, but I dont really get it? So I can gather and search my browser history + most websites i have visited?

This sounds very interesting. Wanted something similar, so going to check it out:)

One thing at first look, like a little feature request ;).

Personally I think it would be very nice if it was possible to index different sites to different search indexs. So you could separate different stuff, like job, different projects you have, and other stuff and then last everything else etc to there on search index db.

So it would be possible to have like "profiles" you could easy choose from. So in the addon, when you click on the hister icon on the toolbar there would be a list of profiles that you could choose where to index the site to. But also a setting to choose which domains and sites that always should index to one search index profils. And all sites that dont is added to a profile is added to the default index instead.

For me this would make it much more easy to find stuff and sort out what Im looking for (for me things get very "thing"/project based what I want to find), so having this..

1 - The "profiles" would become like an important filter. When you search you could easy mark one or more "profiles" which you would search from, and you remove alot of unwanted data automatically, specially when you index every site you visit by automatically.

2 - It would also make it easy if the db gets big over time to remove data that is less important later on and that you dont need to be index anymore.

3 - It would also make it easier to backup only the most important search index DB:s if the DB for the differnt search index:s where in different folders/files. I guess the "default index" that index all sites could easy get big, but there it would be alot of not important data. So would be nice to be able to easy just use a backup program and only backup the only important search databases, to save space.

Thanks

>Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites.

Immediately interested and will check it out, thank you! I've wanted a "search stuff you've seen online" tool for a long time, but everything seems to be research-oriented or "archive but don't search" or some weird combination that means it's nigh useless to me. I've got decades of bookmarks and archives and I've kinda been stuck grepping them at best (it's rare but I do sometimes want a page I saw once three years ago and I love having that option), while hoping someone would build something better.

One question if ya don't mind, while I explore: any chance of singlefile support? Content-extraction is useful in lots of situations (e.g. wallabag) and it's a great default, but sometimes it fails and sometimes you really do want the page, relatively close to how it actually was. Singlefile does that much better than most, and it does so well enough (and manually-handle-able enough if needed) that I don't feel any desire to switch to WARCs or similar.

Though specifically I'm probably looking for something like "content-extract everything" + "key combo to save singlefile version too" + "upload singlefile archives to backfill / recover". Like 99% of the time content extraction is preferred, and I'm glad to see it... it's just not always enough, and having to go elsewhere for exceptions breaks a lot of the utility.

I was thinking about making a "personal data search engine". I have almost 30GB of email archives and a bunch of Google Drive and offline files. I am thinking about downloading it all from the cloud and storing it on a large RAID array, with an indexing and search interface (and possibly a local MCP server).

Would Hister be suitable for this? Can it index mbox files? Would it handle this amount of data? Does it have a search API so I can build an MCP server?

Do you plan on adding filterable tags to the ui? Rather than just metadata.

Very cool. Does it work to connect my phone and laptop to the same firehose?

I often find myself irritated because I read an article on my phone 6 months ago and the history is gone.

What’s the safari story look like right now?

What would be a typical size of the search index, let's say after 5 years of intense browsing?

You should integrate with Karakeep.app, it's only natural that you'd want both a search engine, and a nice "archive" and "article pretty view" features :)

interesting you used AGPL 3 licensing, are you planning a hosted version?

would've been great with a more liberal license

I've been using LinkDing + SingleFile for this. Nice to have another option!

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