About Hister

Hister is a web history management tool that provides blazing fast, content-based search for visited websites. Unlike traditional browser history that only searches URLs and titles, Hister indexes the full content of web pages you visit, enabling deep and meaningful search across your browsing history.

Features

Traditional browser history features are limited to basic keyword matching on URLs and page titles. Hister goes beyond these limitations by:

• Privacy-focused: Keep your browsing history indexed locally on your machine
• Full-text indexing: Search through the actual content of web pages you've visited
• Advanced search capabilities: Utilize a powerful query language for precise results
• Smart organization: Configure blacklist and priority rules for better control
• Efficient retrieval: Use keyword aliases to quickly find content
• Offline preview: Open clutter-free, offline preview of result web pages

Why Hister?

When we search online it can be because of two reasons:

• Find new information
• Recall information we've read before

Hister aids you with the latter by indexing all the websites you visit and providing a search interface as efficient as possible, while seamlessly letting you fall back to the traditional search methods in case you need to find unexplored content.

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Benefits of using Hister instead of free online search engines:

• Privacy
• No advertisements
• No incorrect AI suggestion
• No sponsored results
• No manipulated result order

Use Cases

Hister is perfect for:

• Privacy protection: Manage your data, access it without tracking
• Research: Quickly find information from articles and documentation you've read
• Reference: Locate code snippets, tutorials, or solutions you've visited before
• Knowledge management: Build a searchable archive of your web browsing
• Productivity: Spend less time searching for "that page I saw last week"

Technology

Hister is built with Go and uses the Bleve search engine for lightning-fast full-text search capabilities.
The application consists of:

• A local web server for search interface
• Browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox to automatically index visited pages
• A command line utility to index/import/explore the contents of Hister

License

Hister is free and open-source software licensed under AGPLv3.

Community

Found a bug or have a suggestion? Visit the issue tracker on GitHub.