SearchThing

Your files. Within reach.

You saved it.
Now find it.

That passage, that plan, that half-remembered thought. Search your PDFs, Markdown, and text files with the words you have.

Documents and search stay in your browser.

A little less “where was that?”

Interactive example · 3 sample files
2 matches in your collection
weekend-guide.pdfText match

A quieter kind of weekend

For quiet places to read, try the botanical garden on a weekday morning. Take the shaded path to the benches beside the pond.

Travel / Weekend plans
field-notes.mdRelated idea

The little library on Maple Street

A peaceful reading room tucked behind the main library. Big windows, old oak tables, and a garden outside. A good spot to finish a book.

Notes / Places to remember
Try a thought:

This small demo searches example text and related keywords. The app uses BM25 and local embeddings to search your own files.

A place for the files
you keep coming back to.

Bring PDFs, Markdown, and plain text into one working collection. Search across them without remembering which file holds the answer.

Exact words.
Related ideas. Both.

Text search finds what you typed. Local vector search finds related meaning. Hybrid search brings the two result sets together.

Your working set.
On your side of the screen.

Documents and embeddings are stored in your browser. Your collection stays close, without an upload step or a cloud copy.

The answer comes
with its source.

See the file, the matching passage, and how it ranked. Switch between hybrid, vector, and text search to follow the trail that works for you.

The SearchThing app searching three local documents for safari crash recovery, with source passages and text rankings visible.
Actual app view Text search across a local document collection.

Keep your documents.
Find your train of thought.