I consume content every day and work hard to archive the key elements of knowledge that I may wish to read again or use at a later date.

To that end, I bookmark extensively with Delicious , clip content to Evernote , and read content offline with Instapaper. I also favorite a lot of tweets for future reading, mainly because they have interesting articles I wish to read and ‘bank’ for a later use.

But when it comes to looking for content or information, I still Google first. I have to remind myself to check Delicious, evernote and Instapaper as well.

So this started me thinking, I want the ability to centralise all my sources into one easily searchable place.  So, I started thinking about ‘creating’ my own search engine. A quick Google showed me that wasn’t to be an easy task so I started thinking about how I could centralise my sources to feed into my Google search results when I typed.

This is where I have got to:

1. Use Evernote & Chrome

Evernote has a Chrome Plugin that allows you to both crop articles and also to include Evernote results in your Google results.

This is a great service as it means my Evernote articles are queried for every Google query I make. As you can see the results will indicate if I have articles of relevance but I have to click through to see the results. Not perfect but a good start.

2. Feed Evernote

As I am not able to use Evernote for all my ‘digital filing’ I need to feed what I can to Evernote. After a bit of searching, it seems I cannot simply feed Evernote with RSS feeds (no that would be too easy.) So, I need to feed them through email.

For this I have been using two functions:

i. For emails I use Gmail’s Filter function to forward specific emails (newsletters, press releases) directly to Evernote.

ii. For RSS feeds I convert them through Feed my Inbox. I then send them to my Gmail account and using Filters, send them into Evernote.

Now I am feeding about 100 articles a day into Evernote, I can start to achieve a more personalised search experience.

It is not perfect and I do hope someone comments with a ‘just do this’ solution which will make it much cleaner. Have you tried personalising your search? Do let me know how you get on