archivy 0.0.5

Minimalist knowledge base focused on digital preservation and building your second brain.

Archivy

Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank.

Features:

• If you add bookmarks, their webpages contents' will be saved to ensure that you will always have access to it, in sync with the idea of digital preservation.
• Allows you to sync up with Pocket to gather bookmarks from there too.
• Everything is a file! For ease of access and editing, all the content is stored in markdown files with yaml front matter.
• Extensible search with Elasticsearch and its Query DSL

Upcoming:

• Integrations with HN, Reddit, and many more.
• Add submodules for digital identity so archivy syncs to your hn upvoted posts, reddit saved, etc...
• Option to compile data to a static site that can be deployed.
• Dark theme
• UI for grouping by tag and use NLP to automatically generate connections between posts

Setup

Local Setup

• Make sure your system has Python and pip installed.
• Install the python package with pip install archivy
• There you go! You should be able to start the app by running archivy in your terminal.

With Docker

See the docker branch for details on setting things up with docker.

Setting up Search

Archivy uses ElasticSearch to provide efficient full-text search.

Add these lines to your flaskenv:

ELASTICSEARCH_ENABLED=1
ELASTICSEARCH_URL=http://localhost:9200

Instructions to install and run the service are provided here.

Append these two lines to your elasticsearch.yml config file:

http.cors.enabled: true
http.cors.allow-origin: "http://localhost:5000"