I've maintained my own hosted wiki since 2004, and yeah I'm glad I didn't completely outsource information management. It's definitely getting hard to find certain things I know I've seen.
Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ... (a bunch of text files that render to HTML, and ideally following the links 1 or 2 levels deep)
~20 years ago Google desktop search was a fantastic piece of software ... very fast and accurate on your local files. I don't think something like that exists now, and maybe never existed for Linux
Search engines are extremely modular and Unix-y. You have a bunch of indexed corpora and you intermingle them at ranking time, with respect to a query. But unfortunately there is no real incentive to provide something that has measurably good results and is also open to your own data and modifications
The incentive is to make a walled garden out of it
Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ... (a bunch of text files that render to HTML, and ideally following the links 1 or 2 levels deep)
~20 years ago Google desktop search was a fantastic piece of software ... very fast and accurate on your local files. I don't think something like that exists now, and maybe never existed for Linux
Search engines are extremely modular and Unix-y. You have a bunch of indexed corpora and you intermingle them at ranking time, with respect to a query. But unfortunately there is no real incentive to provide something that has measurably good results and is also open to your own data and modifications
The incentive is to make a walled garden out of it