thesephist/monocle
Universal personal search engine, powered by a full text search algorithm written in pure Ink, indexing Linus's blogs and private note archives, contacts, tweets, and over a decade of journals. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 1888
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1396
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1525 stars · 38 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Monocle is a universal personal search engine that indexes the author's blog posts, journals, notes, tweets, and contacts, with full-text search written from scratch in the Ink programming language. It runs a client-side search index in the browser for fast, private, live-as-you-type results across tens of thousands of personal documents.
Use cases
- search across all my personal notes and journals from one place
- build a private full-text search engine for my own documents
- find old tweets and blog posts instantly as I type
- learn how full-text search systems work by reading a from-scratch implementation
- run a client-side search index in the browser for privacy
When to choose
- you want a hackable, privacy-focused personal search over your own archives
- you need fast, live results from a client-side index
- you want to study a minimal full-text search implementation in Ink
When to avoid
- you need a turnkey personal search tool for your own data - it is tailored to the author's workflow
- you need cutting-edge search relevance or advanced query features
- you don't want to work with the Ink programming language
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
search-engine web-framework frontend-framework web-development developer-tools browser cross-platform full-text-search ink-programming-language personal-search privacy client-side-search note-taking torus search personal-knowledge-management web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/thesephist/monocle · fetched 2026-08-28 · a4e4176907ce
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| thesephist/monocle | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="thesephist/monocle")
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