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Getting Started ​

InKCre helps you collect information scattered across your tools so you and the tools you connect can find and use it. Start here to understand the experience and complete one useful loop. You do not need to be an InKCre developer.

What is InKCre? ​

InKCre collects information from the tools where it already lives so you can find and use it in later work. It can also improve selected information when that helps.

For example, you might collect articles from RSS feeds, keep track of saved GitHub repositories, and capture messages you forward to a Telegram bot. Later, you can find an article from a phrase you remember, follow its related information, or use it through an assistant you connect.

Why use it? ​

Saving information is useful only if you can find and reuse it. An article in one app, a repository in another, and a note in a third can become difficult to bring together when you need them.

InKCre lets you collect from those sources, then find the information in the Web app or use it through tools you connect. You choose where your self-hosted instance runs and which sources matter.

Start with a concrete need—such as finding useful articles from your subscriptions—rather than connecting every source at once. One working source and a successful search are a better first milestone than a large collection you cannot yet use.

How do I start? ​

1. Choose how to access an instance ​

An instance stores your collected information and runs capabilities such as collection. A client, such as the Web app, connects to that instance. Opening the Web app does not create an instance for you.

  • Run your own instance: choose a quick or custom path in Self-Hosted, then return here.
  • Already deployed your instance: reuse the connection details you retained, then connect the Web app and choose your first Source. Its guide identifies the Extension to prepare. Skip the deployment steps.

This guide assumes one user-owned deployment, not a hosted sign-up service or multi-user account.

2. Choose and collect one useful source ​

Choose your first source; a public RSS feed is an easy starting point. Each source guide covers its own prerequisites, Extension setup, and first collection. Once you can retrieve a known item, add personal sources one at a time, with the credentials and permissions each requires.

3. Find what you collected ​

Follow Find What You Saved to maintain the search index, search for something you remember, and open a result. Finding a real item completes the linear Getting Started path, independently of your deployment choice.

Your next step ​

If you do not have an instance yet, open Self-Hosted and choose a deployment path. Otherwise, connect the Web app. After you find a real item, use the User Guide chapters for collection, organization, application, and instance operation as you need them.