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I love the passive nature of your workflow. I’ve always thought that, as soon as I had consumed (read, viewed, heard) some content (text, audio, video) it woul

I love the passive nature of your workflow. I’ve always thought that, as soon as I had consumed (read, viewed, heard) some content (text, audio, video) it would be nice to have a “shadow copy” of it stored in a personal, private knowledgebase, with a simple keyword or more complex semantic search on top. Basically, a personal search engine with a passively gathered corpus of my experienced content - maybe even filtered at times as in your case where you limited it to academic PDFs (to keep the knowledgebase focused). Kind of like an extension of our human memory. Consume -> add as extension of knowledgebase -> recall. Thank you for sharing your workflow - simple and ingenious! Have you had any issues or thoughts for future enhancements? I can think of a number of other helpful things you could do with the corpus you’ve built, for yourself.

jknz 8y ago
It is not limited to academic PDFs, although I mostly use the script to find those. When typing academic keywords (author names, scientific jargon, etc), the personal PDF that also lie in ~/Downloads/ are filtered out. I recently used the command with some combination of airport/city/airline and the only match was the boarding pass I was looking for. It could probably be used for receipts from hotel or whatnot, as soon as pdftotext can retrieve the text. It should find tax returns and related PDFs by querying "IRS + SSN". A current issue that I would like to fix is the preview window that does not always highlight the query in full if a single match was found before the full query was typed. It is linked to how fzf handles previewing. I do not have plans for any big enhancements. edit: I created a public repo to replace the gist. Feel free to post your thoughts or suggestions in the issues!
severine 8y ago
Take a look at Recoll, and its web extension: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/faqsandhowtos/IndexWebHistory.html http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/faqsandhowtos/IndexWebH...

jknz 8y ago

It is not limited to academic PDFs, although I mostly use the script to find those. When typing academic keywords (author names, scientific jargon, etc), the personal PDF that also lie in ~/Downloads/ are filtered out. I recently used the command with some combination of airport/city/airline and the only match was the boarding pass I was looking for. It could probably be used for receipts from hotel or whatnot, as soon as pdftotext can retrieve the text. It should find tax returns and related PDFs by querying "IRS + SSN". A current issue that I would like to fix is the preview window that does not always highlight the query in full if a single match was found before the full query was typed. It is linked to how fzf handles previewing. I do not have plans for any big enhancements. edit: I created a public repo to replace the gist. Feel free to post your thoughts or suggestions in the issues!

severine 8y ago

Take a look at Recoll, and its web extension: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/faqsandhowtos/IndexWebHistory.html http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/faqsandhowtos/IndexWebH...