SamIndex
ProductionPersonal knowledge base with semantic search, people directory, and Google Photos integration
Problem
Personal beliefs, reflections, and life history scattered across journals, letters, conversations, and social media with no unified way to search, connect, and discover relationships between them.
Solution
A full-featured web app with document management, semantic similarity search, people directory linking individuals to documents, life timeline, and Google Photos integration. Deployed at samindex.sjforge.dev.
Key Features
- Document browser with section/category/tag organization
- Inline editing with auto-save and conflict detection
- Semantic search via OpenAI embeddings and pgvector
- People directory with relationship types and aliases
- Automated mention scanner linking people to documents
- Life timeline with event management and age calculation
- Google Photos OAuth integration with photo attachments
- "This Day in History" discovery from past years
- Bulk operations with multi-select
- Audit trail with per-document version history
- Command palette (Cmd+K) for quick navigation
Tech Stack
Architecture
Next.js web app in the SJForge monorepo. Documents stored in Supabase with full-text and semantic search (pgvector). People directory with automated mention scanner using name + alias matching. Google Photos integration via OAuth with encrypted token storage (pgcrypto). SJForge SSO for authentication.
Screenshots
Screenshots coming soon
Metrics
My Role
Sole developer. Evolved from Electron desktop app to full web application with semantic search, people directory, mention scanning, and Google Photos integration.