A 14-part weekly series describing the command-line archive system I’ve built, called ark.
- Part 1: An Archivist’s View
- Part 2: The Data Model – Documents, the Graph, and SQLite
- Part 3: Ingestion at Scale – Getting Documents In
- Part 4: Finding Things – Search from Full-Text to Semantic
- Part 5: The Annotation System – Layering My Voice on the Archive
- Part 6: The People Graph – People, Roles, and Relationships
- Part 7: Books and Reading – A Subsystem for Tracking Reading Life
- Part 8: Asking Questions of the Archive – Contextual Bundles and LLM Tasks.
- Part 9: Stewardship: The Archive Tells Me What Needs Attention
- Part 10 Publishing from the Archive – The Outbox and Blog Pipelines
- Part 11: Living with the Archive – Sync, Location, Day Rank and Timeline
- Part 12: The Interfaces – CLI, TUI, MCP and Vim
- Part 13: The Long Game – Production, Backup, Export and Long-Term Maintenance
- Part 14: A Portrait of My Archive – 5 Decades in 700,000+ documents
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