[articulatepang]

Won’t this only work when connected to the internet? So I can’t use it on a flight.

Or if I work in finance, or healthcare, or law, or government, or a hardware design company, I don’t want my files leaving my network. Those are very important use cases, much more important than searching my personal laptop. I want this for WORK, not my little photo collection or notes or whatever.

This is a great use case for modern LLM/embedding models but gotta be local to be actually useful in the places where it’s most needed.

[aabhay]

The file browsing is fully offline supported (as in the files get synced locally). We also allow text search offline, but smart search is not yet offline (we need to embed the search prompt), however, we would like to support fully offline use soon!

[articulatepang]

Many tools offer offline file browsing and full text search. Anything from midnight commander to Alfred to ripgrep.

I think the valuable and difficult thing is high quality, fast, offline semantic search, including indexing (so my files don't go to your servers -- that's an immediate no-go for all the important industries).

I've tried my hand at this a couple times and it's hard! But really hope you succeed, because it would be a big game changer in how we organize and use information. Every company out there would buy this immediately.