Built for the inconvenient truth that your useful history lives in more than one place.
5explicit formats
0cloud uploads
1source trail per result
Source-grounded by design
Recall without surrender.
Local Data Finder is an index, not a new home for your information. Point it at the places you choose. It gives every match back with the path and extraction time needed to verify it.
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Choose the boundaries
Add only specific folders or explicit exports. Hidden folders and unsupported files are skipped.
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Build a local evidence map
Text is extracted on-device from Markdown, plain text, HTML, mbox and text-based PDFs. Mail attachments stay closed.
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Search, inspect, open
Filter exact lexical matches, read the surrounding evidence, then open the original local source.
⌕decision about the northwind migration⌘ K
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Re: Northwind planning notes
…the final decision about the Northwind migration was to preserve the original export until validation…
Open source ↗
A deliberate boundary
Your private history is not training material.
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Local by construction
Indexing and search happen on your device. The app has no analytics SDK, user account, or corpus API.
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Inspectable scope
You see every indexed source, its record count, extraction time, and parser errors. Removing it never deletes the original.
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Optional encryption
The Archive key encrypts extracted text and paths at rest with a password that is never stored.
Keep the tool, keep the index
One purchase. No archive rent.
Core local search is useful for free. An Archive key adds encrypted indexes and unlimited sources for long-running collections.
US$39
one-time purchase
Encrypted index at rest
Unlimited source folders
All future v1 updates
Move devices with your license token
Buy an Archive keySociobot/Dodo is merchant of record. Refunds are handled there.
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Install in one verified step.
v0.1 builds are unsigned. macOS may require right-click → Open; Windows may show a SmartScreen notice. Checksums are published with every release.
