Curiosity
Curiosity is a powerful search app that gives you one place to find all your files, emails, and apps. It eliminates the need for multiple searches, saving you time and increasing your productivity.
With Curiosity, you can quickly find what you need, whether it's in a folder, email, or cloud app like Google Drive or Notion. It even searches inside files, images, and scans – and you can talk to your files, auto-reply to emails, ask questions, summarize meetings, and much more with the AI Assistant.
The app also works as a launcher, so you can use a simple shortcut to open programs, join video meetings, search your clipboard history, or call up the AI Assistant. Fast and easy.
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TextSeek
TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool. TextSeek can search filename and file content easily and quickly. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, keynote and other formats.
Features:
1. Minimalist design. The search box and results are as intuitive as Google, and the operation is convenient. You can preview the file content with highlighted keywords, and you can quickly browse the search results with ctrl+arrow shortcut keys.
2. Double search modes. Users can search directly without index (Easy mode), or index specific directories to speed up searching (Zone mode).
3. Cross-platform and multi-language. It supports Windows and Mac OS systems. It performs full-text search with no omission, and it can search through all languages by using UNICODE. The user interface supports Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Arabic and other languages.
4. Multiple search options. The results can be filtered by document type, file name, or file content.
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dtSearch
dtSearch products instant searching across terabytes of text in a wide range of online and offline data types. Search time (including concurrent search time) is typically less then a second. dtSearch Desktop and dtSearch Network run in a classic Windows environment for individual or shared network-based searching. The dtSearch Engine developer SDK comes in multiple different versions for different platforms. Running in an Internet or Intranet server-based environment, the dtSearch Engine supports efficient multithreaded searching, with no limit on the number of concurrent search threads. Indexing is easy: just point to the folders or online data you want to index. No need to tell dtSearch what files, emails or other content you have; dtSearch will figure that out for itself. dtSearch can build and simultaneously search any number of terabyte indexes.
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Crestadoro
Crestadoro is a networkable file indexing and search tool. You can install it on multiple Windows machines, create libraries of documents that reside on each machine, then search and access the files from anywhere on your network.
You can install Crestadoro on as many machines as you like, both the indexing engine and the search client are easy to set up. You can optionally use SQL Server to store the data if you don't want to use the internal storage mechanism that comes as standard (though it is pretty wizzy!).
The Community Edition is completely free to use, you can have as many libraries as you want, the only limitation is that each library can only hold a maximum of 100 documents.
Crestadoro is named in honor of Andrea Crestadoro, a chap who lived a couple of hundred years ago who is generally considered to be the first person to come up with the idea of indexing a book by its content rather than its title. He was also an inventor who came up with some bonkers ideas!
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