Beagle

Quickly find the stuff you care about.

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking for.

Using Beagle, you can easily find:

• documents
• emails & attachments
• web history
• IM/IRC conversations
• addressbook contacts
• calendar appointments
• notes
• source code
• images
• music/video files
• archives and their contents
• applications
• ... and much more

Visit the about page to learn more about what Beagle can do.

Getting Beagle

The most recent version of Beagle is 0.2.16.3, which was released on 15 March 2007.

• Read the release notes.
• Download the latest source tarball.

Visit Installing Beagle for source build instructions and links to binary packages (available for most popular distributions). Visit the Getting Started page for instructions on how to get Beagle up and running on your system.

See Beagle Run

Nat Friedman has made a series of short movies that show Beagle in action. (Flash player required.) These movies are a little out of date at this point, but you should get an idea of the power and simplicity of Beagle.

Discussing Beagle

Discussions relating to Beagle take place in #dashboard on GIMPnet and on the dashboard-hackers mailing list.

Robert Love has set up Planet Beagle, an aggregator for the blogs of various Beagle hackers.

There's also a page where people can post their experience with Beagle.

Reporting Bugs

Before you report a bug, please check the Troubleshooting section and the bugs already reported to see if you are seeing a known problem. If not, please report the bug in the Beagle component of GNOME Bugzilla.

Google Summer of Code

Once again, Beagle is participating in the Google Summer of Code program. To learn more about our participation, how to apply, and to see a list of ideas, visit the Summer Of Code 2007 page.