Apse Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Unbundling Tools for Thought

  Hey, I’ve been building that. It’s called A Personal Search Engine: https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Take More Screenshots

  A paid tool in this direction is APSE (https://apse.io) which bills itself as a personal search engine that OCRs intermittent screencaps. I loved the idea, but in practice it lacked polish. I agree that additional metadata like foremost application filepath/url would take this to another level. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Project Naptha

  I’ve been working on exactly that! [0] My info is in my hn profile, if you (or anyone reading) would like to chat about it. [0] https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Websites Die

  I’ve been working on a very similar thing which runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux: https://apse.io. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Gains I'm Seeing from My Second Brain Tool

  Maybe APSE is what you're looking for [1]. A while back the founder sent me a link after one of my blog posts hit HN. It's a tool that continuously records your desktop and offers text search of everything through OCR. I personally found the idea interesting, but I was too afraid to ever try it out. The mere idea of a video record existing of everything that's going on on my computer, even if it's never... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Recoll: A desktop full-text search tool

  Other "personal search engines" https://thesephist.com/posts/monocle/ written in personal language, takes multiple doc sources https://apse.io interesting because it takes periodic screenshots and performs OCR https://keminglabs.com/finda/ rust, fast, seemingly abandonded. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• APSE - A Personal Search Engine

  Ran across APSE (A Personal Search Engine) after seeing it mentioned on Hacker News. Source: almost 3 years ago