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dsearch – filesystem search service

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

dsearch is a native file system search tool with configurable indexes and a CLI + REST API for searching files with various parameters.

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TinySPARQL – low-footprint RDF triple store library

June 22, 2024 Erik Karlsson Productivity

The TinySPARQL library offers a complete RDF triplestore with SPARQL 1.1 interface and a minimal footprint.

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Pinot – D-Bus service

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Pinot is a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes and monitors your documents.The software has a GTK-based user interface that enables to query the index.

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Terrier – flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents.

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Searchmonkey – Java desktop search engine

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Searchmonkey is billed as a powerful desktop tool for finding files and their content using regular expressions, offering power searching without the pain.

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DocFetcher – desktop search software

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

DocFetcher is a free and open source desktop search application. This software allows users to search the contents of documents.

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Baloo – KDE’s file indexing and search solution

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Baloo is a file indexing and searching framework for KDE Plasma. This is free and open source software written in C++.

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Tracker – filesystem indexer, metadata storage system and search tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Tracker is a tool designed to extract information and metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched easily and quickly.

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Recoll – desktop full-text search tool

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Recoll is a personal full text search tool. It is a full text search application. Full text search applications let you find your data by content rather than by external attributes (like a file name).

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