Recoll: A desktop full-text search tool

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  • recoll-webui

    web interface for recoll desktop search

  • Recoll is not just a desktop search engine, it can also be used as an intranet search engine either 'stand-alone' [1] or as an 'engine' in Searx [2]. I made the Searx engine a few years ago to extend Searx to intranet search, the QT qui is not used (an, on Debian, not even installed - only the 'recollcmd' package is needed).

    [1] https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui

    [2] https://github.com/searx/searx/pull/1257

  • Searx

    Discontinued Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

  • Recoll is not just a desktop search engine, it can also be used as an intranet search engine either 'stand-alone' [1] or as an 'engine' in Searx [2]. I made the Searx engine a few years ago to extend Searx to intranet search, the QT qui is not used (an, on Debian, not even installed - only the 'recollcmd' package is needed).

    [1] https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui

    [2] https://github.com/searx/searx/pull/1257

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  • ArchiveBox

    🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...

  • I've been running a setup with Recoll and https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox for a few months now [1]. Each morning archivebox scrapes all new links that I've put into my (text-based) notes and saves them as HTML singlefiles. Then Recoll indexes them.

    It's very fast and ~4 lines of code. It's surprising how often I rediscover old blog posts & papers that are much better than what Google yields me.

    From my experience Recoll isn't very good at searching for aliases sadly.

    [1] https://siboehm.com/articles/21/a-local-search-engine

  • Tufte CSS

    Style your webpage like Edward Tufte’s handouts.

  • Not my site, but it looks like a theme based on Tufte CSS: https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

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