Ister (Latin Hister, Ancient Greek Ἴστρος / Istros) is the ancient classical name used by the Greeks and Romans for the Danube River, specifically referring to its lower course.
Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
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Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can host Hister on a home server and access it from multiple devices. Automatic page capture on mobile currently requires Firefox, since mobile Chrome does not support browser extensions.
Can you support kiwi browser mobile? It has extension support and is chromium based.
Happy to contribute the feature if needed
Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
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Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
#95Ohi, 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 r…
Is the extracted content stored in a way that could be easily converted to markdown? Seems like this could be integrated incredibly well with obsidian as a way to automatically expand your knowledge base, as well as a better search for it.
Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> Would Hister be suitable for this? The indexer it uses (Bleve) can handle millions of records according to their docs, but sure that Hister would be the best choice for this task. I'd probably use Meilisearch ( https://www.meilisearch.com/ ). > Can it index mbox files? Not yet. > Does it have a search API so I can build an MCP server? It has both search API and MCP server endpoints.
EDIT: I wanted to write "*not* sure" in the previous message.
Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
#97Ohi, 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 r…
> 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 a…
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Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
#98Ohi, 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 r…
Is the extracted content stored in a way that could be easily converted to markdown? Seems like this could be integrated incredibly well with obsidian as a way to automatically expand your knowledge base, as well as a better search for it.
The extracted content is stored and displayed as HTML, so converting it to markdown doesn't guarantee lossless transformation. But, the other direction works well: Hister can live track and import markdown files providing full text search and rendered previews for all your files.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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've been on site site for years. I created an account just to comment on this thread. Holy crap, the only time I've ever heard 'Hister' was in a book I read on Nostradamus like 30 years ago.
Yep. I think I know which book you are thinking of. Maybe a search assistant programmed in Go could be named Go-ring! You know, short for "go" and "webring".
Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
#100Ohi, 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 r…
I used to be interested in the prophecies of Nostradamus a lifetime ago. You may be surprised to learn that “Hister” is a name mentioned in those prophecies that is commonly claimed by believers to refer to the future Adolf Hitler. Academics usually take it to mean the Danube river instead, but in conspiracy/New Age contexts, the association with Hitler is prevalent, and mentioned in several pop culture works, includ…
Literally the first thing I thought of. Is he trying to reference an Antichrist?