Perkeep VS Apse

There's also Perkeep [1], though it seems like development has slowed down on it in recent years. [1]: https://perkeep.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

You probably just want to pay the cost for hosted. But if you're set on running it yourself, https://perkeep.org/ is great. Source: 12 months ago

Not sure how actively it’s being developed but it sounds like perkeep is exactly the idea you’re looking for. Source: over 1 year ago

So... It just occurred to me that you need to know about https://perkeep.org , I have been following it since the beginning when it was called Camlistore, and notably this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxSzQIwXM1k ( from this page: https://perkeep.org/doc/ ). Source: over 1 year ago

If you want to live dangerously, this might eventually be useful: https://perkeep.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

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 / about 2 years ago