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Sep. 23rd, 2020 11:18 pmI learned about Recoll today while looking for a way to search ~50 chat-log ODT documents for a particular exchange, and oh my god it's amazing.
It totally did handle that situation, but it also handles *so* many other file formats. EPUB, HTML, Thunderbird, *things inside zipped folders* (7-zip too, if you install the right plugin!), just to name a few. I tried a search for "backpack" and got hits from chat logs, fanfics, ebooks, blogs, wikis, emails...
And there's search syntax, to let you exclude stuff with certain words or restrict it to a particular directory and all that.
I have acquired my own private search engine! That is a thing, that exists, right now, that you can just download off Synaptic like it's no big deal and not something beyond Vannevar Bush's wildest dreams!
It totally did handle that situation, but it also handles *so* many other file formats. EPUB, HTML, Thunderbird, *things inside zipped folders* (7-zip too, if you install the right plugin!), just to name a few. I tried a search for "backpack" and got hits from chat logs, fanfics, ebooks, blogs, wikis, emails...
And there's search syntax, to let you exclude stuff with certain words or restrict it to a particular directory and all that.
I have acquired my own private search engine! That is a thing, that exists, right now, that you can just download off Synaptic like it's no big deal and not something beyond Vannevar Bush's wildest dreams!
