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Brin ([personal profile] brin_bellway) wrote2020-09-23 11:18 pm

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I 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!

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