Perkeep
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 11, 2025first mention
Aug 21, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“PS: Checkout Perkeep for a take on aggregating all your data in one place.”
“Checkout Timelinize and Perkeep!”
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“Thanks for building `tsidp` (and Perkeep!)”
Caveats and dissent
“this looks like way too much to trust in the long run.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
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All comments 15
“PS: Checkout Perkeep for a take on aggregating all your data in one place.”
“Perhaps something along the lines of Perkeep (formerly Camlistore)”
“Checkout Timelinize and Perkeep!”
“Another commenter brought up Perkeep, which I think is very interesting.”
“inspired by PerKeep[0]”
“PerKeep may make that a complete non-issue, though I'm not 100% certain”
“Thanks for building `tsidp` (and Perkeep!)”
“Reminds me of Timelinize”
“I'm building an app _conceptually similar_, but with an AI on top”
“It appears that it does integrate with Tailscale for auth”
“I just added support for perkeep in Filestash last week”
“this looks like way too much to trust in the long run.”
I've been similarly half-interested in it for... more than a decade now. The new release (which is what I assume prompted this post) looks pretty impressive (https://github.com/perkeep/perkeep/releases/tag/v0.12).
The overview is very comprehensive: https://perkeep.org/doc/overview
I have used perkeep. I still do at least in theory. I love the concept of it but it’s become… not quite abandonware, but it never gained enough traction to really take on a full life of its own before the primary author moved on. A bit of a tragedy because the basic idea is pretty compelling.