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Thing is, I use Xchat at work, on my Phone a native Sailfish OS IRC client, om my Android AndChat, on my iMac Textual and on my laptop a different instance of Xchat. And in between those clients are offline so they can't get continuous logs which they could save for offline search.

But I would love to learn how to do that, for example with ZNC which is online all the time.

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Well, maybe try Quassel?

That logs the logs in an SQL database, you can search with Quassel-Suche (a web-based search engine for quassel backends), and we have clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS (kinda) and Android (with a better Android client in beta) and a webclient.

You get contiguous logs like in Slack, Push Notifications (with the Android beta, soon), and you can search through your logs.

In fact, I don’t bookmark things in my browser anymore – I send them in a query to myself, and just use quassel-suche half a year later to find them, or, if there hasn’t been much activity in the channel, just scroll up (infinite scroll to load more logs).

Nice, I will check it out :)

Almost everyone I work with uses ZNC. I've stuck with my same old method of tmux/screen and a text mode client. Apparently ZNC isn't hard to set up or use but I have no direct experience with it.

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