A searchable archive of everything

I wrote something down recently, and later I couldn't find it. If you know me, you know why; I put my notes into too many different apps. Once in a while I declare loudly that "I'm using only this app, from now on! I mean it!" and then change my mind a month later. It's just the way I am. This most recent failure was the last straw and finally forced me to deal with it properly. Instead of fixing myself, I built a software crutch. I spent today vibe-coding an indexer and search engine for all of my stuff. Here's the initial version of a web UI: I also hacked together a TUI and an Emacs package. Those access the data via Tailscale SSH so I don't need to worry about installing things on other machines. Just the wrapper script. Here's the list of sources being indexed (so far): ./archive index baty.net: 1272 items (0.9s) archive.baty.net: 2791 items (1.1s) linux.baty.net: 26 items (0.0s) blot.baty.net: 678 items (0.3s) jackbaty.com: 581 items (0.1s) notes: 2287 items (1.0s) dayone: 2507…