# Building Personal Search Infrastructure for Your Knowledge and Code [See Within Blog Graph]

tags: #literature #relational-thinking #projects uid: 202302201705 —

NOTE 02-20-23: This is an excellent follow-up note to “Building my own metadata library” 202301292209 that I’ve been referencing a lot recently. If I grow tired of my Airtable setup, I should try following the advice in this article to build a truly central, localized repository of all my data (if I do so choose to do so). I don’t imagine the need to do so, because I can build 80-90% good enough search in Airtable with minimal effort, and I happen to be aware that significantly better, full-text search is coming to Airtable in the next few months anyway.

• my personal notes, tasks and knowledge repository (this blog included) • all digital trace I’m leaving (tweets, internet comments, annotations) • chat logs with people • books and papers I’m reading • code that I’m working on • information on the Internet (duh!) Source: https://read.readwise.io/read/01gr0zqrp2tbf80exmknfpyb8v

To find something in my Kobo ebook, I need to reach my device physically and type the query using the virtual keyboard (yep, e-ink lag!). Not a very pleasant experience.

It’s something I own and have read. Why does it have to be so hard? Source: https://read.readwise.io/read/01gr0zqepw3pjtagdq2seh7rpy

That gives me source data for a search engine over anything I’ve ever:

• tweeted • bookmarked on Pinboard • highlighted in Instapaper or Kobo • saved or upvoted on Reddit • etc., etc Source: https://read.readwise.io/read/01gr114dvyrf57wm926hgm8htj

I would love to have this? I’m sort of replicating this with my current setup but it’s not exactly what I want.

I’ll write about searching in

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February 22, 2023

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