Feedback Wanted: New Meilisearch File Indexer App – SFTP/S3 & Local Files?

[robi]

1. Looks like a more beneficial direction, since not many solutions exist, compared to many for local indexing.

Also, If this will be a App/Service on Cloudron it will need a way to remotely index other local apps installed, if that's the drift I'm seeing.

Otherwise it's an embedded instance per App that has the indexing need.

[timconsidine]

@robi thanks for the feedback

I tend to agree.

The initial vision is a cross-device cross-storage cross-app unified index, and not everyone is comfortable with volume mounts.

Certainly the ability for the unified index to include results from other apps, e.g. a user's Nextcloud deployment, would be good, and it's not really a unified index if certain silos are not included. Need to look into that.

Embedded instance per app is overhead and not a great direction to take, but there might be some cases where a user might want a more targeted and integrated facility (I'm thinking of Seafile CE). Such a user might typically be someone who is much more organised and disciplined than me (who is drowning in files stored in multiple places because that seemed right at the time but I forget within an hour where I put something )

I'm building a road map of other functionality, including the inescapable AI summarisation of docs and indexing.

[necrevistonnezr]

The local agent sounds pretty cool…
And anything that can provide a meaningful search experience for all mails hosted on Cloudron. Search functionality on all self-hosted webmailer‘s is terrible.

[Kubernetes]

I like both options!

[timconsidine]

I decided there was no need of either/or scenario.

So I went ahead and implemented S3/SFTP/WebDav in addition to "local" (meaning actually local to the app and effectively local by means of a mounted volume).

Also I added a desktop tool for user's working devices.

Testing it all out, and will then release it as a custom app.

I decided that a change of app name is appropriate.
It is now "SRTD".
You can see the website for the app at https://srtd.appx.uk

[jdaviescoates]

@timconsidine said in Feedback Wanted: New Meilisearch File Indexer App – SFTP/S3 & Local Files?:

It is now "SRTD".

As in "Sorted"?

[robi]

@jdaviescoates maybe Search Remote Transferred Data?

[timconsidine]

@jdaviescoates yep, that was in my mind
"sorted" as in properly filed and organised
"sorted" as in problem resolved

Best not to put me in charge of any marketing

[timconsidine]

@robi but hey, that might be a lot better

[robi]

@timconsidine oh, ha, I see.. just with the vowels removed.

So britt.