HistoryHound - 1.9.7

I really enjoy having History Hound at hand. I end up using it a dozen times a week just to find some page I hit but didn't bookmark. The tool integrates so well with my workflow that I don't even think about it until right when I need it, which is perfect.

With the flexible indexing I have History Hound can search archives of NetNewsWire, and even your own webpages, etc (if you're a web developer, this can be nice for finding a snippet you put into a site, etc).

I got a copy for free and tossed it out, that's how useless this was. It was a good idea.
The first thing you have to do is go through all your bookmarks and clean house before running this, if you have littlesnitch running, Goodnight Irene. You'll have so many alert windows that you'll think you're playing a shoot-em-up game. After all that's done, it acts as a slow internet browser, and non of the search results were what I was looking for. It's just extra baggage that you don't need.

This is just my experience with it. I won't attack your comments and reviews, so please don't attack mine.

Yes the indexing could be more customizable. Aside from that it seems that the simplest applications are often the most useful. I have thousands of web sites bookmarked and until this app, I had no way of finding anything without tons of guesswork and a lot of wasted time. History Hound is one terrific piece of software and the price was certainly reasonable. It is definitely one of the first applications that I'll reinstall every time I reformat a drive. Aside from paying for it, this is one of those applications where you should email the author and simply say "Thanks!"

A great tool for finding previously visited web pages. Most browsers have history functions that are virtually useless, but HistoryHound works well. I just wish there was an option to turn on indexing when the computer is idle (like Macaroni does for OS X maintenance), since it takes a lot of CPU to perform. Right now, as far as I can tell you can only schedule it for every X minutes.

you looked at a month ago with that article on Halliburton. Where the heck was it? Type Halliburton into HistoryHound and viola!-there it is! Or maybe it was Halliburton's stock chart. You type Halliburton and chart and there is the page with the chart. For anyone who needs to go back and find something they looked at a week, a month, a year ago, this is THE program you need. Words, partial words, Boolean searches-it's all here, in an easy to use interface. The developer has given us a 30 day trial period, so if you don't use it in 30 days, you may not need it, but its a free way to find out.
Hint: set the preference so that HistoryHound starts up when you log in, set your Account System Preferences so that it is hidden and HistoryHound runs in the background, silently logging your browser activity until you need it. This is a great program--essential in the web age.