vinoSearch

Search your files by what’s in them, from KRunner or GNOME Shell. Every model runs on your Intel NPU, and nothing leaves your machine.

KRunner opens with Alt+Space. Typing "how do I rotate the signing key" lists signing-keys.md, release-checklist.md, gpg.md and deploy.sh under vinoSearch Text, most of which never use the word rotate. Then "dog watching the sunset" lists IMG_2041.jpg and three other camera-named photos under vinoSearch Images, and Enter opens a photo of a dog silhouetted against a sunset.

Filename search finds signing-keys.md when you remember it’s called that. vinoSearch finds it when you remember what it says. It also finds IMG_2041.jpg from “dog watching the sunset”, because it reads the pixels, not the name.

Text and images, searched from one box. Markdown and plain text, plus photos, documents and source code when you turn them on. Code is searched apart, with code: in front of the query, so it never crowds out your notes.
On the NPU. Indexing runs at ~28.6 chunks/s and 3% of one core, so it doesn’t fight you for the CPU. A warm query takes 26 ms (p50).
Where you already search. KRunner and GNOME Shell’s overview. A CLI too.
Stays current. inotify picks up changes within seconds, and an hourly check catches anything it missed.
Private. The only network calls download the model and the runtime, and each model file is checked against a pinned SHA-256.

It’s early days: a working proof of concept, used daily on one laptop. Expect rough edges.

Start here

You need Linux with an Intel NPU (Core Ultra or newer) and the NPU driver; no NPU, --device CPU works, just slower. Then:

curl -L https://github.com/karanshukla/vinoSearch/releases/latest/download/vinosearch-x86_64-linux.tar.gz | tar xz
vinosearch/scripts/install.sh --index ~/Documents

Installing covers what that does, other distros, building from source and removal. Using it covers KRunner, GNOME, other Wayland desktops and the CLI.