Shipped: Hister - Your own search engine

Features

• Privacy focused: No telemetry or mandatory cloud service. Run Hister locally or on infrastructure you control.
• Full text indexing: Search the actual contents of visited pages and local files, not only titles and URLs.
• Automatic browser indexing: Save newly visited pages with the Firefox or Chrome extension.
• Powerful queries: Use field filters, phrases, wildcards, negation, aliases, and result priorities.
• Optional semantic search: Find documents by meaning through an embeddings endpoint you configure.
• Crawler and browser import: Index websites or bring in existing browser history and bookmarks.
• Web, terminal, and MCP clients: Search from the browser, TUI, command line, or an AI assistant.
• Multi user support: Keep each user's documents and search results separate on a shared server.