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Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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I'll be honest I wouldn't blame OP for not finding this (I found a species of hister beetle before anything to do with Hitler) I feel this is a weird spin on the "Clicks to Hitler" game

I was not using Wikipedia to get there. This is something I immediately recognized from research about World War II and possible prophetic fulfillment. I definitely wasn't playing a game when I came across this information either, but I get your drift.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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I tried this out this week and liked it but really wish this project had some form of auth. Opening the contents of every page you’ve ever visited, even to the local network, is not the best idea.

I've set it up today with OIDC AuthN (Keycloak), removed the username/password fields & kept only OIDC, it's working flawless.

Also indexed data is persisted on a per-user basis, so you got this isolation and certainty that your searches will not be polluted by your family's

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#33
Time to shameless plug my own easy to host your own content search index

Webtm.io

All open source and small enough to deploy. I deploy to cf webworkers so it’s the only place it’s tested.

One cool thing is we work on iOS, chrome and friends, Firefox and pretty much everywhere. We do require you bring your own LLM though.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#34
post #27

Can it import browser bookmarks? It says browser history and a bunch of other bookmark services but not specifically browser bookmarks.

Yes, it can import data from various sources, including browser history, and popular self-hosted bookmarking apps: https://hister.org/docs/import

Is this reply from Gemini? Because I'm used to gemini gaslighting me. The answer is the opposite of my question.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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I'll be honest I wouldn't blame OP for not finding this (I found a species of hister beetle before anything to do with Hitler) I feel this is a weird spin on the "Clicks to Hitler" game

I was not using Wikipedia to get there. This is something I immediately recognized from research about World War II and possible prophetic fulfillment. I definitely wasn't playing a game when I came across this information either, but I get your drift.

Interestingly, when I searched "hister" on English Wikipedia, I was sent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube#Names_and_etymology

Where it says that “Hister” is a variant of its Latin name.

I think the name is lovely with no reason to change. Surely there are few people who would connect this with silly medieval superstition. Perhaps you can take part in wiping out that association.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#36
post #21

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Exactly! I had the very same issues before Hister. > One question if ya don't mind, while I explore: any chance of singlefile support? Yes, partially. Hister can already import HTML files created by SingleFile, but there is no direct integration yet. In the longer term, I would like the SingleFile extension to be able to send snapshots directly to Hister.

I assume it content-extracts that on upload? I'd really like to move storage into hister too, if possible. That way you could also switch from an extracted view to a "full" view in the UI. Though I assume that'd be fairly simple to build later. Overall I really like what I'm seeing, it ticks a lot of important boxes for me and it's pleasantly straightforward. Hopefully I'll find time to contribute!

> I assume it content-extracts that on upload?

Hister always stores the original material.

> That way you could also switch from an extracted view to a "full" view in the UI.

It isn't even needed, we just need a SingleFile specific extractor (an interface in Hister to parse specific page content and provide custom previews) that provides the full original HTML for the preview panel.

> Hopefully I'll find time to contribute!

I'd appreciate it. <3

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was not using Wikipedia to get there. This is something I immediately recognized from research about World War II and possible prophetic fulfillment. I definitely wasn't playing a game when I came across this information either, but I get your drift.

Interestingly, when I searched "hister" on English Wikipedia, I was sent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danube#Names_and_etymology Where it says that “Hister” is a variant of its Latin name. I think the name is lovely with no reason to change. Surely there are few people who would connect this with silly medieval superstition. Perhaps you can take part in wiping out that association.

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Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#38
I just finished setting this up yesterday and I'm kind of obsessed with it. I was previously a heavy user of Karakeep, but I hated forgetting to save something and losing it. I also think Hister's semantic search is a better solution than AI generated summaries and tags. Support for local docs is super cool too, I have it set up to index my org notes directory.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it can import data from various sources, including browser history, and popular self-hosted bookmarking apps: https://hister.org/docs/import

Is this reply from Gemini? Because I'm used to gemini gaslighting me. The answer is the opposite of my question.

Doh, sorry, the answer was coming from me who did not read the question properly. It currently cannot import browser bookmarks, but it is a good idea. Added to my TODO.
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