Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep

Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.

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Download the binary for your platform from the latest release , then rename it to hister ( hister.exe on Windows).

chmod +x hister Start Hister on Linux or macOS:

./hister listen On Windows, run .\hister.exe listen in PowerShell.

Keep this terminal open while using Hister. The server must be running to index pages and search them.

Open http://127.0.0.1:4433 and install the browser extension for Firefox or Chrome .

Visit a web page with the extension enabled, then return to Hister and search for a phrase from that page to find your first indexed result.