Beagle and Recoll - Desktop Search Engines

If you already have a desktop search engine installed on your desktop, you probably appreciate the convenience of quickly finding files or messages that you desperately need, but don't remember where you put them. I you don't, you may want to check out one of those handy search tools for your Linux system, such as Beagle or Recoll.

Such search tools enable you to easily find documents, emails, instant messenger conversations, notes, source code, images, etc. Besides the source code, binary installation packages of Beagle are available for most major Linux distros and can be downloaded here. Recoll downloads are available here.