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Re: Project Naptha

#21

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

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Re: Project Naptha

#22

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

I think windows and Mac both do this by default, no? Just disable the web search and your local full text is what you're left with.

Re: Project Naptha

#24

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

I've read comments from people (don't remember the forum, perhaps HN) where people have said that they did this. No idea if there's a public project for this that you can use, but people have definitely done it. I agree that it'd be useful to have, though you probably need a good way to filter out irrelevant stuff.

Re: Project Naptha

#25

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

The pieces exist, you can string them together with a Perl one-liner. You are interested in the set intersection of the following two topics:

Full indexing: https://lesbonscomptes.com/recoll>, https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi>, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/falcon_extension> (If you're not content with a piece, then research substitutes on https://alternativeto.net>.)

Recent: `.local/share/recently-used.xbel`

This does not help with the email part because email programs do not register opened messages in recently used. Work-around: install a DBus or AT-SPI hook and write your own database of recently opened messages.

Happy hacking!

Re: Project Naptha

#26

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

this has been built before. the problem is that it also needs attention for ranking

Re: Project Naptha

#27

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

I think windows and Mac both do this by default, no? Just disable the web search and your local full text is what you're left with.

I believe they meant they want something that searches only content the user has personally directly accessed, not ALL local content.

Re: Project Naptha

#28

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

For the web part, there's a tool called Recoll, and a browser plugin Recoll-we.

Re: Project Naptha

#29

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

There was once a thread here on hacker news about missing features of operating systems, as such a thing could only be achieved on OS level... can't find it anymore, unfortunately. It was mentioned that passwords etc. could be a nightmare. A feature like that would be a big dream of mine: Some kind of an individualized semantic archiving processing and a vector search engine to search through it.

Re: Project Naptha

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post #25

What I would really like is a little bit like this but not quite the same: full text search over everything I have ever seen on the computer. It would read and index the emails, web pages, word docs, etc as I open them, then later when I think "I know I saw a doc about cache oblivious algorithms", I can search for it without being distracted by 100K documents I haven't seen. Or I can find that email I read, without f…

The pieces exist, you can string them together with a Perl one-liner. You are interested in the set intersection of the following two topics: Full indexing: https://lesbonscomptes.com/recoll >, https://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi >, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/falcon_extension > (If you're not content with a piece, then research substitutes on https://alternativeto.net >.) Recent: `.local/share/recently-use…

Thank you for sharing this
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