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Universal personal search engine, powered by a full text search algorithm written in pure Ink, indexing Linus's blogs and private note archives, contacts, tweets, and over a decade of journals.

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Opinion on recoll

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Hi!

Very intrigued by your project. I was wondering about your thoughts on personnal desktop search engines like recoll.

I personnaly export a lot of my personnal informations as text file to index them in recoll.

I would have thought that forking a software like recoll to add your own tokenizer etc would have been a time saver. It also exists without GUI.

Curious about why you went from scratch.

commented

Few reasons, none of them that great:

  1. I wanted to learn how a basic FTS engine worked, so wanted to build my own. This is the main reason.
  2. I needed something that worked on mobile b/c I'm frequently outside. Recoil seems to have a so-so mobile web app. I also could have chosen some other search library for the web, too, but didn't because of reason no. 1.
  3. Some stuff I need to index are not always locally available (they're twitter exports, exports of my notes apps, etc.) that interface thru an API or manual one-time export.

It's kind of like asking, there are so many computers out there, why would you build your own computer? Well, sometimes it's just fun to build your own :) And often useful to understand everything under the hood to extend / modify it to suit my needs.