Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
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Hister builds a private, offline searchable index from pages you visit and files you keep.
Hister is a personal search engine that indexes visited pages, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline previews, supporting full-text and semantic search. It runs locally, with a web UI, CLI, and MCP endpoint. The project may need to rename due to a trademark conflict with Histre.
The author previously built Searx. A demo is at demo.hister.org. The browser extension can selectively index pages via a companion tool for Qt WebEngine browsers.
What commenters are saying
Many commenters fondly remembered Chrome's early offline page search and Google Desktop, lamenting their removal. The author confirmed the project may need to rename due to a trademark conflict with Histre. Some users praised the tool for active knowledge retrieval over long-term archival. One commenter asked about multi-computer setup, which is supported via a shared server. Another noted it can import from Linkwarden. A few suggested integrating with local AI models instead of relying on ChatGPT for recalling past information.