Comment by asciimoo

> If I wanted to use use my domain list to start hister, to download my preconfigured / like domains?

Yes, Hister has a built-in crawler which supports standard HTTP and different browser based backends

> Can I make some pages to rank higher in it?

You can create priority rules to boost the ranking of the matching domains/URLs

> Can I assign tags to pages (by which I could later on filter?)

It is possible to add a label to indexed documents