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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep

741 points · 202 comments · bookofjoe

  1. MomsAVoxell · · focus · HN ↗
    I attain this without involving an untrustworthy third party, with one simple trick: Print to PDF.

    Every single web page I’ve found interesting, since the advent of the Web, I have printed to PDF and stored locally for my own personal reference.

    Something like 80,000+ files - my own copy of my own Internet - indexable, searchable.

    Available offline. Something to read when I am far out to sea.

    There is no need to involve third parties in your Internet history - no matter how trustworthy they seem to want to appear.

    Print to PDF, and you’ve got everything you need, safe and sound.

    1. nottorp · · focus · HN ↗
      Except search. I want search. Going to try this project.
      1. krackers · · focus · HN ↗
        You could combine it with existing products like DevonThink that are meant for researchers organizing documents and provide tagging, semantic search, similarity graphs, and so on.
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