# 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.

Repository: https://github.com/thesephist/monocle
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/thesephist-monocle
Homepage: https://monocle.surge.sh/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ink-programming-language, search-engine, full-text-search, torus-dom
Last push: 2022-11-06T04:47:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1888, "days_push": 1396, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1525, forks 38 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:58.324939+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: search-engine, web-framework, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: full-text-search, ink-programming-language, personal-search, privacy, client-side-search, note-taking, torus, search, personal-knowledge-management, web-server

## Member repositories
- thesephist/monocle (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:58.324939+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:40.533496+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thesephist/monocle (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:58.324939+00:00, sha a4e4176907ce)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.