Never Lose a Toot Again: Full-Text Search for Your Mastodon Feed
Mastodon search is limited. Here is how Hister automatically indexes every toot you see and lets you find them in milliseconds.
Using Hister for Threat Intelligence workflows
Some feedback on using Hister for Threat Intelligence workflows, with practical tips and lessons learned.
Hister: The Most Privacy-Respecting Search Engine
A detailed look at the privacy landscape of web search from big online engines to self-hosted metasearch, and why Hister offers a fundamentally stronger privacy guarantee than any of them.
Building a Personal Knowledge Base with Hister's Crawler
Hister's crawler turns any website into a searchable part of your personal index. Here is how to build a structured knowledge base from documentation, wikis, and reference sites.
AI-Powered Semantic Search in Hister
Hister now supports semantic search: an AI-powered layer that understands the meaning behind your query and surfaces relevant pages even when they use completely different words.
Extractors: An Ecosystem for Better Search
How Hister extractors turn raw HTML into rich, searchable content and why we need more of them
How I Use Hister
A personal walkthrough of how I maximize productivity and privacy with Hister: instant access via global hotkeys, query aliases, skip rules, pre-indexing reference material, and seamless fallback to external search engines.
Data Indexing in Golang
A practical guide to fast, content-based document retrieval in Go using Bleve. From simple indexing to custom query languages and performance fine-tuning
Indexing Local Files with Hister
How to search your local documents, notes, and code alongside your browser history with Hister's new file indexing feature
Hister in Self-hosted Newsletter
We're excited to announce that this week Hister got featured in the Self-hosted newsletter!
Firefox Extension IDs: The Bad and the Ugly
Firefox extensions use unique internal UUIDs per installation instead of static IDs in the Origin HTTP header that creates privacy nightmare and makes CSRF protection harder to implement for extension-to-server communication
How Hister Works
High level explanation about how Hister works by breaking down its four main components
How I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half
I built Hister, a self-hosted web history search tool that indexes visited pages locally. In just 1.5 months, I reduced my reliance on Google Search by 50%