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looqs is a tool that creates a full-text search index for your files. It allows you to look at previews where your looqs is a tool that creates a full-text search index for your files. It allows you to look at previews where your
search terms have been found, as shown in the screenshots below. search terms have been found, as shown in the screenshots below.
## Screenshots ## Screenshots
The screenshots in this section may occasionally be slightly outdated, but they are usually recent enough to get an overall impression of the current state. The screenshots in this section may occasionally be slightly outdated, but they are usually recent enough to get an overall impression of the current state of the GUI.
### List
![Screenshot looqs results](https://garage.quitesimple.org/assets/looqs/opearting_systems_looqs.png)
### Preview ### Preview
looqs allow you to look inside files. It marks what you have searched for.
![Screenshot looqs](https://garage.quitesimple.org/assets/looqs/orwell.png) ![Screenshot looqs](https://garage.quitesimple.org/assets/looqs/orwell.png)
![Screenshot looqs search fstream](https://garage.quitesimple.org/assets/looqs/fstream_write.png) ![Screenshot looqs search fstream](https://garage.quitesimple.org/assets/looqs/fstream_write.png)
### Results list
#### Classic results list
Just enter what you want to find, it will search paths and file content.
![Screenshot looqs results](https://garage.quitesimple.org/assets/looqs/looqs_diary.png)
#### Searching with filters
You can be more specific to get what you want with filters
**Filters (long form)**
![Screenshot looqs results](https://garage.quitesimple.org/assets/looqs/opearting_systems_looqs.png)
**Filters (short form)**
There is no need to write the long form of filters. There are also booleans available
![Screenshot looqs results](https://garage.quitesimple.org/assets/looqs/looqs_beatles_marley.png)
## Current status ## Current status
Last version: 2022-0X-XX, v0.1 Last version: 2022-0X-XX, v0.1
Please see [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) for a human readable list of changes. Please see [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) for a human readable list of changes.
## Goals and principles ## Goals and principles
* **Find & Preview**. Instead of merely telling you where your search phrase has been found, it should also render the corresponding portion/pages of the documents and highlight the searched words. * **Find & Preview**. Instead of merely telling you where your search phrase has been found, it should also render the corresponding portion/pages of the documents and highlight the searched words.
* **No daemons**. As some other desktop search projects are prone to have annoying daemons running that eat system resources away, this solution should make do without daemons where possible. * **No daemons**. As some other desktop search projects are prone to have annoying daemons running that eat system resources away, this solution should make do without daemons where possible.
* **Easy setup**. Similiarly, there should be no need for heavy-weight databases. Instead, this solution tries to squeeze out the most from simple approaches. In particular, it relies on sqlite. * **Easy setup**. Similarly, there should be no need for heavy-weight databases. Instead, looqs tries to squeeze out the most from simple approaches. In particular, it relies on sqlite.
* **GUI & CLI**. Provide CLI interfaces and GUI interfaces * **GUI & CLI**. Provide CLI interfaces and GUI interfaces
* **Sandboxing**. As reading and rendering lots of formats naturally opens the door for security bugs, those tasks are offloaded to small, sandboxed sub-processes to mitigate the effect of exploited vulnerabilities. * **Sandboxing**. As reading and rendering lots of formats naturally opens the door for security bugs, those tasks are offloaded to small, sandboxed sub-processes to mitigate the effect of exploited vulnerabilities.
## Features
- GUI, CLI interface
- Indexing of file path and some metadata.
- Indexing of file file content for FTS search. Currently: .pdf, odt, docx, plaintext.
- Preview of file formats: Currently: .pdf, plaintext
- Highlight searched terms.
- Quickly open PDF viewer or text editor at location of preview
- Search filters
## Supported platforms ## Supported platforms
Linux (on amd64) is currently the main focus. Currently, I don't plan on supporting anything else and the sandboxing architecture does not make it likely. I suppose a version without sandboxing might be conceivable for other platforms, but I have no plans or resources to actively target anything but Linux at this point. Linux (on amd64) is currently the main focus. Currently, I don't plan on supporting anything else and the sandboxing architecture does not make it likely. I suppose a version without sandboxing might be conceivable for other platforms, but I have no plans or resources to actively target anything but Linux at this point.
### Licence ### Licence
GPLv3. GPLv3.
### Contributing ### Contributing
Fow now, github issues and pull-requests are preferred, but you can also just email Please see the [Contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) file.
your patches or issues to: looqs at quitesimple.org
## Documentation
Please see [USAGE.md](USAGE.md) for the user manual. There is also [HACKING.md](HACKING.md) with more technical information.
## Build ## Build
### Ubuntu 21.10/22.04 ### Ubuntu 21.10/22.04
To build on Ubuntu, clone the repo and then run:
``` ```
git submodule init git submodule init
git submodule update git submodule update
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make make
``` ```
The GUI is located in `gui/looqs-gui`, the binary for the CLI is in `cli/looqs`
This may also work on Debian, but it's untested.
## Documentation
Please see [Usage.md](USAGE.md) for the user manual.
## Packages ## Packages
Coming soon™ Coming soon™