Meta Search - Search your Desktop, Google Drive, Dropbox, Gmail, Evernote.

@jasonrastrick @williamchanner This looks very promising. How much will it cost?

@danflopes @williamchanner We're still thinking a lot about this and would love feedback! When we leave beta, we'll be charging $10 a month for the Pro tier that allows unlimited cloud integrations and devices. We plan to support a lot more cloud accounts in the future. ☁️☁️☁️ There's more info here: www.meta.sc/pricing/ Any ideas?

@jasonrastrick @danflopes @williamchanner $10 for pro seems reasonable. What devices are you thinking of?

@macbikegeek @danflopes @williamchanner We're working on a Windows application right now, and we'll be supporting iOS and Android as well 😃

@jasonrastrick @danflopes @williamchanner My wife is eagerly awaiting the Windows version!

@kkkosariya Awesome, that's so great to hear!

@kkkosariya Thanks for helping us with beta testing! 🎉

@tomfme @jasonrastrick @emilypavlini I used to meticulously file things away in crazily complex folder structures trying to keep things organized. Since we built out Meta, I think I can count the number of folders I've created on one hand! As of now I basically have a few folders I'll throw things in to keep my top level clean, and whenever I need to access something I just go through Meta. All my old stuff still exists in those folder heirarchies (no need to rearrange it) and is just as accessible as the new.

@tomfme @emilypavlini @ataylor0123 I don’t organize at all, I rely entirely on Meta now 😃

@tomfme @jasonrastrick @ataylor0123 I'm very organized - maybe too organized (folders in folders in folders!) 😂 Meta saves me a TON of time because I just do a quick search instead of clicking into 100 different folders to get to what I'm looking for! I also now have files scattered across many different cloud services, so sometimes I can't remember where to look 😬

@bentossell At the risk of plagiarizing our About page. My mom is a Kindergarten teacher. One summer she was about to go back to school and was trying to get organized, but she had 356 files on her desktop. You know when files start stacking in the top right corner of the screen? I built a simple Desktop organization program called Tidy Pro 😂 which kind of worked, but within a week her Desktop was trashed again.  Then my mom's school introduced Google Apps and her colleagues were sharing things with her on Dropbox, which just added to the chaos. Everyone can find what they want on Google among billions of web pages, why isn’t it the same for your files? That’s why we’re building Meta 😃

@lee_peterson Hmm, interesting, we didn't consider that user flow! If you connect your Dropbox and Drive cloud accounts to Meta that will be the source of truth, and you can still open those files locally if you have the Mac client. I would suggest removing Dropbox and Drive local syncing and just connect directly to the cloud apps themselves. 😃 Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention, we'll definitely update the Mac App to be more explicit about that! Let me know if you run into any issues with that, I'm happy to go into more detail!

@jasonrastrick Awesome. I hadn't actually considered it a UX issue now that I think about it. There didn't seem to be anything "wrong" with it, you know? I guess I just didn't see something like "We're indexing your entire Dropbox/Drive/Slack/etc. accounts, and you can add local macOS directories to index as well." If I saw that, then I'd just skip indexing local files since Alfred/Spotlight does that very well for me.

@lee_peterson Yeah that makes complete sense! Thanks!

Wow, thanks Product Hunters for all the traffic! We've brought on more than 10 times as many people today as we have in a single day so far, indexed millions of files, and processed tens of millions of requests. That's awesome!!! We did have a few hiccups along the way in getting everyone's Meta accounts ready, primarily in the form of slow downs, so some of you may just now be getting access to the search. There were a few different issues at play, but after some awesome work put in by our team and the wonderful folks at our technology partners, we've been able to mitigate most everything causing slowdowns, and the system is just about caught up to where it should be! If you haven't been unlocked just yet, you should be soon!

@macbikegeek Thanks for all the positive feedback - I'm blushing! 😊

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@briggsstefan Woohoo! Glad to hear you like Meta! 🎉

@leech Our first OCR project is scanned PDFs, but image OCR is something we're looking into! What image types are you interested in particularly? Can you describe the use case? We'd love to help!

@jasonrastrick yes, mostly scanned document (or today we use mobile photos a lot to capture text). Also would be interesting some kind of agent for quick search without opening the whole app. Clean and minimal like Spotlight for quick searches. And the entire app for more powerful search.

@leech Definitely! We wanted to start with the full app to demonstrate the full search capabilities but we're planning a simple, quick launch function that makes full use of keyboard shortcuts. Stay tuned!

@heliostatic Thanks, Ben! Glad you've found Meta helpful so far 😃

@morganpolotan Thank you very much! Glad we've replaced Drive search for you. Are there any other integrations you'd like to see us add?

@aplssf Totally agree! Trello card search is very different from file search though, which has been our biggest focus so far. We would love any suggestions on how to improve/optimize the card search experience 😃

Yes! If you right-click the Evernote file you'd like to open and select "Evernote App" from the dropdown, it will open directly in Evernote. (Eventually we will have a setting where you can make this the default behavior!)

@tj_mahony Thanks a lot for testing with us!

@icco Very cool! We'd love to hear your thoughts once you get a chance to try it out! 🎉 And a few people have asked for an integration with Alfred - definitely something we're looking into!

@mattmayberry thanks so much! I'd love to hear what you think of Meta once you have a chance to try it out! What do you miss most about Greplin?

@evankimbrell Yeah! We have plans to make the Mac app do lots more stuff in the near future, including syncing with Apple Mail (I use Apple Mail as well). We'll look into Spark! More generically, we're also hoping to roll out support for email as a whole soon, supporting the IMAP, etc.

@evankimbrell don't worry, you're not the only one! Many users have been asking about other mail services too! 😃

@imakesoft we hope so! I'd love to hear what you think of Meta once you've had a chance to use it more!