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Building Monocle, a universal personal search engine for life | thesephist.com

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Monocle is a full text search engine indexed on my personal data, like my blog posts and essays, nearly a decade of journal entries, notes, contacts, Tweets, and hopefully more in the future, like emails and web browsing history. It lets me query this entire dataset to look for anything I’ve seen or written about before, and acts as a true “extended memory” for my entire life.

Monocle is a full text search engine indexed on my personal data, like my blog posts and essays, nearly a decade of journal entries, notes, contacts, Tweets, and hopefully more in the future, like emails and web browsing history. It lets me query this entire dataset to look for anything I've seen or written about before, and acts as a true "extended memory" for my entire life. As soon as it went live, Monocle quickly replaced the search field on nearly every other app I use, and became the first and only place I searched for information that I knew I'd seen before. Whether I was searching up s

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