it’s a habit changer.
It took some time to get used to it, but I find it more efficient, to spawn a Hister with a single hotkey and use the URL bar with a traditional search engine when I know that I’m looking for something new. But, of course this is subjective, everbody has their preferred workflows, I shared mine as an inspiration.
Btw, you can start your query with !!, in this case Hister automatically redirects you to your external search engine with the rest of the search query.
I’ve started creating smaller, pre-fetched, thematic datasets: https://hister.org/datasets . It is still very rudimentary, but the concept is the same. Both datasets and improvement ideas are appreciated.
It isn’t possible to setup hister as my default search engine in browser with automated fallback to normal Meta-search with whatever engine?
It can be added as a default search engine and it provides a link and a hotkey to open the search query with an external search engine, however I have a different workflow: https://hister.org/posts/how-i-use-hister
And I use login credentials maybe a faster way like passkey possible in the future?
That’s a good idea, thanks for the suggestion.
The storage requirement is around 100KB/page on average.
Memory usage can exceed 1GB momentarily for searches when using language detection and multi-language indexes (it is the default config). Without language detection Hister has a much smaller memory footprint (~30MB default with ~100-150MB peaks).
I’d absolutely love to do this! It’s already on my future plans list: https://hister.org/support :
Create infrastructure for importable, pre-indexed databases organized by topic, letting users quickly expand their local index with curated, relevant content.
It could be a hub like Docker Hub, but for cool results.
Exactly!
Sorry. Ha ha. You know you have a good idea when people start asking for features. I haven’t even started it yet.
<3 No need to apologize. I appreciate suggestions a lot (especially if those are well aligned with my ideas =] ).
It indexes pages which were already visited, right?
Yes, if you use the browser extension only, but Hister has an API and a crawler as well if you’d like to add content you have not visited yet. Also, Hister supports indexing local text files, not just websites.
Afterwards, that website is in my browsing history and if I need it again, I don’t need to search for it
These are the biggest weaknesses of the browser history compared to Hister, but there are many more nuances where Hister can provide extra features and QoL improvements. I recommend checking the documentation & posts on the website if you are interested in the details.
Also how I would imagine it is default search there and if no hit then fallback to a default search engine, e.g. DDG.
This is exactly how I use it. Hister has even a hotkey to quickly jump to your preferred online search engine with the current search query if you cannot find what you are looking for.
The results are standard search results, if you click on the title, it opens the original URL, just like in any other regular search engine. You can even close the preview pane if you are not interested in it.