Nate's Blog

This website could use Search capabilities. If i want to reference a previous post, I need to physically go the website and find it. My idea endstate is to fire off a Raycast command, search how I care to and then copy the URL of the chosen post to my clipboard.

Perplexity AI's Deep Research

I'm starting with firing off a research prompt to perplexity.ai's Deep Research mode.

I have a markdown blog in Next.js. Please give me the top 5 options for how to make the blog posts searchable.

Here is the conversation.

Findings

I learned a lot about Search right there. The main thing I learned, strategically, is that this is a massive topic, and I need to iteratively build this out. I am going to base this off of use case priority.

Feature possibilities -

• fuzzy search on title, description, tags, post content
• semantic search on title, description, tags, post content
• search by date range
• search by latest
• caching at different layers of the stack
• real time UI feedback
• Raycast integration

Plan

I am going to start with implementing the ability to get the n latest posts and pipe the results into Raycast to allow me to copy the desired link to my keyboard.

This is going to require -

• A new API route for the search
• A new blog-service that is responsible for fetching the blog metadata
• The ability to show returned results in Raycast for copying.

More to come!