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Use this as a personal knowledge base. Indexed my blog. Indexed a bookmarks export. Indexed a knowledge base. Works well. It also convinced me of power user ui

tecoholic 4y ago
Self plug - If you want to skip bookmarking and go straight to indexing, I have a firefox extension for it - https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it
- johntash 4y ago
  > Adds the current webpage to the local YACY index. This assumes you are running YaCy in localhost:8090. Is there a way to use this plugin with an instance of Yacy hosted somewhere other than localhost? I tried making a bookmarklet to do something similar, but never ended up getting it working.
  - mdaniel 4y ago
    They seem to have a configuration option for it: https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it/blob/main/options.html#L11 https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it/blob/main/options.html#... but that file isn't present in the most recent tag, so it's possible it just needs a release or you'd need to build the extension from source
  - tecoholic 4y ago
    The recent version supports configuring your own host from the extention's settings page. You don't have to build your own, just install from Firefox Add-ons site
gavmor 4y ago
That sounds promising! How often do you export your bookmarks, and in what format do you keep your knowledge base?
pacifika 4y ago
Firefox export as html then point yacy to it. My knowledge base is a bookstack instance
ThinkingGuy 4y ago
I keep everything on my home server: photos, music, home videos, movies, downloaded webpages, ebooks, instruction manuals, etc., all shared out over HTTP. Yacy basically gives me a centralized, private search engine for my house. Example searches: "Frigidaire manual" "living room collection:Photos" "London Philharmonic Orchestra collection:Music" Of course, having things in an organized hierarchical file system, with good metadata, helps.
- johntash 4y ago
  Do you expose things like photos/videos/pdfs through a public web server? I thought about using Yacy for something similar, but wasn't sure about wanting to just leave everything available unauthenticated on the local network.
  - ThinkingGuy 4y ago
    I've configured my web server so that it's accessible over the Internet, but only if you have a client certificate issued from my certificate authority.
    - vineyardmike 4y ago
      Any pointers on how do this at home? It’s the basic premise of “zero trust” but also managing phones etc seems a pain for home use.
- ephbit 4y ago
  Have you considered using recoll for your use case? I guess it should fit your "centralized private search engine for my house" application quite well.
  - ephbit 4y ago
    I really liked that one time, when recoll brought up more than 10 year old photos I had mostly forgotten about. I had searched the name of a person and a few photos still had exif tags in them from when I had used Picasa back then to tag them with the person's name.
ydant 4y ago
That's what I'm doing - exporting bookmarks, links from my notes (markdown, etc), HN/Reddit upvoted links, starred github projects, etc - and then having YaCy index them. In theory, this means I can use this as a search engine of things I found interesting / potentially useful. In practice, I never search it, but that's more a limitation on my workflows than anything else.

tecoholic 4y ago

Self plug - If you want to skip bookmarking and go straight to indexing, I have a firefox extension for it - https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it

johntash 4y ago
> Adds the current webpage to the local YACY index. This assumes you are running YaCy in localhost:8090. Is there a way to use this plugin with an instance of Yacy hosted somewhere other than localhost? I tried making a bookmarklet to do something similar, but never ended up getting it working.
- mdaniel 4y ago
  They seem to have a configuration option for it: https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it/blob/main/options.html#L11 https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it/blob/main/options.html#... but that file isn't present in the most recent tag, so it's possible it just needs a release or you'd need to build the extension from source
- tecoholic 4y ago
  The recent version supports configuring your own host from the extention's settings page. You don't have to build your own, just install from Firefox Add-ons site

gavmor 4y ago

That sounds promising! How often do you export your bookmarks, and in what format do you keep your knowledge base?

pacifika 4y ago

Firefox export as html then point yacy to it. My knowledge base is a bookstack instance

ThinkingGuy 4y ago

I keep everything on my home server: photos, music, home videos, movies, downloaded webpages, ebooks, instruction manuals, etc., all shared out over HTTP. Yacy basically gives me a centralized, private search engine for my house. Example searches: "Frigidaire manual" "living room collection:Photos" "London Philharmonic Orchestra collection:Music" Of course, having things in an organized hierarchical file system, with good metadata, helps.

johntash 4y ago
Do you expose things like photos/videos/pdfs through a public web server? I thought about using Yacy for something similar, but wasn't sure about wanting to just leave everything available unauthenticated on the local network.
- ThinkingGuy 4y ago
  I've configured my web server so that it's accessible over the Internet, but only if you have a client certificate issued from my certificate authority.
  - vineyardmike 4y ago
    Any pointers on how do this at home? It’s the basic premise of “zero trust” but also managing phones etc seems a pain for home use.
ephbit 4y ago
Have you considered using recoll for your use case? I guess it should fit your "centralized private search engine for my house" application quite well.
- ephbit 4y ago
  I really liked that one time, when recoll brought up more than 10 year old photos I had mostly forgotten about. I had searched the name of a person and a few photos still had exif tags in them from when I had used Picasa back then to tag them with the person's name.

ydant 4y ago

That's what I'm doing - exporting bookmarks, links from my notes (markdown, etc), HN/Reddit upvoted links, starred github projects, etc - and then having YaCy index them. In theory, this means I can use this as a search engine of things I found interesting / potentially useful. In practice, I never search it, but that's more a limitation on my workflows than anything else.