Your own search engine

Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.

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Quickstart

Download the binary for your platform from the latest release , then rename it to hister ( hister.exe on Windows).

On Linux or macOS, make it executable:

Start Hister on Linux or macOS:

On Windows, run .\hister.exe listen in PowerShell.

Keep this terminal open while using Hister. The server must be running to index pages and search them.

Open http://127.0.0.1:4433 and install the browser extension for Firefox or Chrome .

Visit a web page with the extension enabled, then return to Hister and search for a phrase from that page to find your first indexed result.

No configuration is required for a local personal setup.…