If this is interesting to you, you should check out the interesting work that karlicoss and others have done with "Human Programming Interface" [0] / [1]. I've

If this is interesting to you, you should check out the interesting work that karlicoss and others have done with "Human Programming Interface" [0] / [1]. I've been kicking this idea around for quite a few years and have gone through multiple iterations before finding HPI and tossing out or adapting all my work in favor of building off theirs. Mine is a bit more service / cloud oriented in how it runs (shocker... at one point I made it into a product) while HPI is heavily local-first for obvious good reasons. HPI is a great platform to build your own stuff off and benefit from all the work that has already been done because imo building a good foundation is the hardest part. Sean Breckenridge's HPI-API is super interesting and useful, could likely be worked into this search engine concept, quite sure Sean actually has both newsboat and Firefox modules already made. I wrote modules of my own and made an authentication wrapped HPI-API and a GraphQL instance but currently in the middle of an infra move so nothing super cool to show off. At one point I had a dashboard powered by it but we all know how these one-off internal-use-only projects end up. :) I think the most interesting thing I've written for HPI is my ActivityWatch syncing. It's been happily churning away for years and during my infra move, I discovered that it had about 20GB of activity data stockpiled. Multiple years of down to the second cataloguing of everything I did and saw on the computer. Lots of interesting stuff in collecting and leveraging your data. If any of this stuff catches your eye, I highly encourage browsing karlicoss' exobrain [2] because there are some interesting things in there. I post all of this to hopefully save someone (or many people) time because I recall how dejected I felt having spent multiple weekends chipping at a problem someone already solved better. I think this previous discussion was where I discovered it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26269832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26269832 [0]: https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI [1]: my own stuff, not trying to step on Karli, just wanted a 3 letter org for my stuff: https://github.com/hpi https://github.com/hpi [2]: https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html