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I love that we’re seeing fast & flexible solutions for personal search. I’ve recently been playing with Recoll for full-text-search on content. Since it indexe

I love that we’re seeing fast & flexible solutions for personal search. I’ve recently been playing with Recoll for full-text-search on content. Since it indexes content up front, the search is pretty fast. It can also easily accommodate tag metadata on files. It would be interesting to consider how ripgrep based tools can fit into generically broad “search your database of content” workflows (as opposed to remember or go through your file system paths).

rjzzleep 6y ago
rga also indexes them when you search. To be honest I like that approach a lot more since it saves space and I generally know where I'm looking for things ls -sh ~/.cache/rga/ total 336M 336M data.mdb 4.0K lock.mdb
- curious_tenet 6y ago
  Wow that is so cool!
- ssivark 6y ago
  That kind of caching is an interesting solution to incrementally building a database instead of spending hours up-front indexing. So the tool is ready for immediate use. Quite nifty :-)
simias 6y ago
FZF + ripgrep is really killer for me. I don't even bother organizing my notes anymore, I just throw everything markdown files in a flat directory and then I have a script that uses FZF + ripgrep to search through it when I need it. I search by "last modified first" so unless I'm digging for something very old the results are instant. Code snippets, finances, TODO lists, cake recipes... It's all in there. I use the same system in Vim to browse source code. It's very powerful, very fast, works with any language and requires zero configuration.
- polyrand 6y ago
  I couldn't agree more with that. I wrapped a bash function to search through my notes folder with fzf + rg and it works perfectly. Also, I have a specific pattern to write some tags inside files that I can parse with ripgrep.
- rshm 6y ago
  Can you share your script.
  - maxioatic 6y ago
    I'd love some more info as well!
  - simias 6y ago
    This is the main one (that actually only uses FZF, not ripgrep): https://gist.github.com/simias/b1d8356469d2a9386deeb7c45984b961 https://gist.github.com/simias/b1d8356469d2a9386deeb7c45984b... You'll need to set NOTES_DIR in your environment to wherever you want your notes to be stored. Then you can write `note something` to create or open $NOTES_DIR/something.md with your $EDITOR. If you type "note" without parameter you'll start a search on all the note names, ordered by last use. If you type "note -f" it starts a full text search. For best results you should have the fzf.vim's preview.sh somewhere in your fs, otherwise it'll use "cat" but it won't be as good looking (see FZF_PREVIEW in the script). Hopefully despite being shell it should be readable enough to tweak to your liking. Note that it was written and used exclusively on Linux, but I did try to avoid GNU-isms so hopefully it should work on BSDs and maybe even on MacOS with a bit of luck.
- tasuki 6y ago
  About a year ago, I discovered it was very helpful for me to have git branches ordered by "recently modified first": From my `~/.gitconfig`: [alias] brt = "!git for-each-ref refs/heads --color=always --sort -committerdate --format='%(HEAD)%(color:reset);%(color:yellow)%(refname:short)%(color:reset);%(contents:subject);%(color:green)(%(committerdate:relative))%(color:blue);<%(authorname)>' | column -t -s ';'" I always spent a lot of time being confused about branches, and never realised how easy the solution was.

rjzzleep 6y ago

rga also indexes them when you search. To be honest I like that approach a lot more since it saves space and I generally know where I'm looking for things ls -sh ~/.cache/rga/ total 336M 336M data.mdb 4.0K lock.mdb

curious_tenet 6y ago
Wow that is so cool!
ssivark 6y ago
That kind of caching is an interesting solution to incrementally building a database instead of spending hours up-front indexing. So the tool is ready for immediate use. Quite nifty :-)

simias 6y ago

FZF + ripgrep is really killer for me. I don't even bother organizing my notes anymore, I just throw everything markdown files in a flat directory and then I have a script that uses FZF + ripgrep to search through it when I need it. I search by "last modified first" so unless I'm digging for something very old the results are instant. Code snippets, finances, TODO lists, cake recipes... It's all in there. I use the same system in Vim to browse source code. It's very powerful, very fast, works with any language and requires zero configuration.

polyrand 6y ago
I couldn't agree more with that. I wrapped a bash function to search through my notes folder with fzf + rg and it works perfectly. Also, I have a specific pattern to write some tags inside files that I can parse with ripgrep.
rshm 6y ago
Can you share your script.
- maxioatic 6y ago
  I'd love some more info as well!
- simias 6y ago
  This is the main one (that actually only uses FZF, not ripgrep): https://gist.github.com/simias/b1d8356469d2a9386deeb7c45984b961 https://gist.github.com/simias/b1d8356469d2a9386deeb7c45984b... You'll need to set NOTES_DIR in your environment to wherever you want your notes to be stored. Then you can write `note something` to create or open $NOTES_DIR/something.md with your $EDITOR. If you type "note" without parameter you'll start a search on all the note names, ordered by last use. If you type "note -f" it starts a full text search. For best results you should have the fzf.vim's preview.sh somewhere in your fs, otherwise it'll use "cat" but it won't be as good looking (see FZF_PREVIEW in the script). Hopefully despite being shell it should be readable enough to tweak to your liking. Note that it was written and used exclusively on Linux, but I did try to avoid GNU-isms so hopefully it should work on BSDs and maybe even on MacOS with a bit of luck.
tasuki 6y ago
About a year ago, I discovered it was very helpful for me to have git branches ordered by "recently modified first": From my `~/.gitconfig`: [alias] brt = "!git for-each-ref refs/heads --color=always --sort -committerdate --format='%(HEAD)%(color:reset);%(color:yellow)%(refname:short)%(color:reset);%(contents:subject);%(color:green)(%(committerdate:relative))%(color:blue);<%(authorname)>' | column -t -s ';'" I always spent a lot of time being confused about branches, and never realised how easy the solution was.