Machiya

Find you read yesterday, last month, last year.

Powered by Hister, SearXNG and Obsidian, Machiya's apps make it easy to find and work with everything you've come across on the Information Superhighway.

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Shiori, the Machiya search app, with results for washi: a web result, your saved pages How washi paper is made and Kozo, mitsumata and gampi, and your note Lantern festival kit in one list. The saved page How washi paper is made is open on the right. Shiori, the Machiya search app, with results for washi: a web result, your saved pages How washi paper is made and Kozo, mitsumata and gampi, and your note Lantern festival kit in one list. The saved page How washi paper is made is open on the right. The same search for washi in Shiori on a phone. The same search for washi in Shiori on a phone.

Shiori, Hister and SearXNG

Browse as usual: Hister's official extensions save what you read in Firefox and Chrome, and hister-safari does it in Safari on the Mac. Shiori also comes with its own Safari extension for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.

With Shiori, your pages, notes and code are woven into results from SearXNG.

Shiori on the All tab for the search lantern: web results with your saved pages and your Lantern festival kit note from Kura woven in, each tinted, beside an Info box about paper lanterns. Shiori on the All tab for the search lantern: web results with your saved pages and your Lantern festival kit note from Kura woven in, each tinted, beside an Info box about paper lanterns.

Read, curate and publish your notes

Kura and Niwa

Point Kura at your Obsidian vaults to read and search every note. Publish the ones you want to share to a digital garden that grows with your projects.

Kura showing the note Bamboo frames: its tags, the steps and a table of rib sizes, beside the vault's folders and a list of recently changed notes. Kura showing the note Bamboo frames: its tags, the steps and a table of rib sizes, beside the vault's folders and a list of recently changed notes. Niwa on a phone: the published notes, with topic maps for crafts and travel, then every note, most recently tended first, marked Seedling, Budding or Evergreen. Niwa on a phone: the published notes, with topic maps for crafts and travel, then every note, most recently tended first, marked Seedling, Budding or Evergreen.

Manage your projects

Konbini

Turn your Obsidian notes into cards on a kanban board to track your projects and goals.

Konbini's board for the sample vault: cards grouped by area in Backlog, Ready, WIP, Blocked and Done columns, each card tinted in its column's colour, with a Group By switch and Area pills above. Konbini's board for the sample vault: cards grouped by area in Backlog, Ready, WIP, Blocked and Done columns, each card tinted in its column's colour, with a Group By switch and Area pills above.

It's the little things

  • Native share sheet support on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
  • Offline support. Saved pages sync when you're back on The Internet.
  • Notes open in Obsidian, or preview in Machiya's rooms.
  • Archive.org and Archive.is support: every web result links to archived snapshots.
  • Meet your audience where they are: Niwa publishes to the Web, Gopher and Gemini.
  • A writing kit that lays out a finished project for its blog post.
  • Keep your AI agents in the loop with skills and a fully featured MCP server.
  • Runs in containers or natively on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, on arm64 or amd64.
  • Native Shiori apps for popular platforms and progressive web apps for Kura, Niwa and Konbini.
  • Support for your esoteric tastes: Shiori natively runs on Haiku and Classic Macintosh.
Shiori on Haiku: a search for lantern lists sample notes and saved pages in a native Haiku window.
Shiori on Haiku
Shiori on a Mac Plus in System 6, in black and white: a search for lantern lists sample notes (Lantern festival kit, Chochin build log, Washi offcuts, Kyoto trip plan) above saved pages.
Shiori on a Mac Plus, System 6