Opinion on recoll
thiswillbeyourgithub opened this issue · comments
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.
Few reasons, none of them that great:
- I wanted to learn how a basic FTS engine worked, so wanted to build my own. This is the main reason.
- 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.
- 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.