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#+title: Add a desktop search engine for your digital library
#+date: "2020-04-15 20:41:51 +08:00"
#+date_modified: "2021-05-13 14:15:39 +08:00"
#+language: en


Desktop search engines adds a crucial thing for [[id:66337935-420c-40e6-81a6-f74ab0965ed5][Maintaining your own digital library]]: retrievability.
With the ability to search and retrieve for information scattered throughout our files, we can then quickly connect and add information without much burden.

An ideal desktop search engine should have the following things:

- Features both a graphics user interface (GUI) and a command-line interface (CLI).
- Accepts not only plain-text files but other file formats such as images, videos, and audio.
- Quickly searches through text and even [[id:ccb3bc14-a801-4ed0-b066-50b1bcd853aa][File metadata]] for binary files.
- Invites integration (and extension) with an API allowing for more control and features.
- Highlights searching with a query language that is both simple and powerful.

With a cursory search, I found [[id:253c59a3-f5ba-4d77-b535-7447a512945d][Recoll]] that fits the bill with the added bonus of being a cross-platform tool and easily configurable.
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Update the files for convention Apparently, the convention (at least starting from 2018) is to make the keywords and block names to be in lowercase as stated from one of the following discussions at https://orgmode.org/list/87tuuw3n15.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/. The files was updated with a one liner of shell. However, this is Emacs and org-mode does have an API to let you do stuff in your config and interact with the documents internally so it is not an elegant solution in any way. 2021-04-01 16:08:15 +00:00			`#+title: Add a desktop search engine for your digital library`
			`#+date: "2020-04-15 20:41:51 +08:00"`
Update memory- and learning-related notes 2021-05-14 05:03:07 +00:00			`#+date_modified: "2021-05-13 14:15:39 +08:00"`
Update the files for convention Apparently, the convention (at least starting from 2018) is to make the keywords and block names to be in lowercase as stated from one of the following discussions at https://orgmode.org/list/87tuuw3n15.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr/. The files was updated with a one liner of shell. However, this is Emacs and org-mode does have an API to let you do stuff in your config and interact with the documents internally so it is not an elegant solution in any way. 2021-04-01 16:08:15 +00:00			`#+language: en`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00

Migrate notes to org-roam v2 2021-05-04 16:07:40 +00:00			`Desktop search engines adds a crucial thing for [[id:66337935-420c-40e6-81a6-f74ab0965ed5][Maintaining your own digital library]]: retrievability.`
Update wiki as of 2020-07-06 2020-07-06 15:32:10 +00:00			`With the ability to search and retrieve for information scattered throughout our files, we can then quickly connect and add information without much burden.`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00
Update wiki as of 2020-07-06 2020-07-06 15:32:10 +00:00			`An ideal desktop search engine should have the following things:`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00
			`- Features both a graphics user interface (GUI) and a command-line interface (CLI).`
Update wiki as of 2020-07-06 2020-07-06 15:32:10 +00:00			`- Accepts not only plain-text files but other file formats such as images, videos, and audio.`
Migrate notes to org-roam v2 2021-05-04 16:07:40 +00:00			`- Quickly searches through text and even [[id:ccb3bc14-a801-4ed0-b066-50b1bcd853aa][File metadata]] for binary files.`
Init commit of my wiki 2020-06-23 18:29:05 +00:00			`- Invites integration (and extension) with an API allowing for more control and features.`
			`- Highlights searching with a query language that is both simple and powerful.`

Update memory- and learning-related notes 2021-05-14 05:03:07 +00:00			`With a cursory search, I found [[id:253c59a3-f5ba-4d77-b535-7447a512945d][Recoll]] that fits the bill with the added bonus of being a cross-platform tool and easily configurable.`