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I'm working on a system similar to this to satisfy my own needs but can open up to brave alpha users if requested.

I've a concept of boards/themes where you can add structured information like people (to remember contacts in context), bookmarks, thoughts, tasks and even RSS feeds to stay up-to-date on a theme (e.g battery tech). Emails and calendar will be coming soon so that your personal corpus is voluminous and of high enough quality to make a personal GPT actually useful. E.g "who was the CTO I met at the dinner last week".

FWIW I'm already a founder of a company so this isn't intended as a commercial pitch.

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Years ago, I submitted an admittedly half-baked version of this to YC. The concept is interesting, but the implementation options are:

a) require considerable and routine manual data entry from the end-user

b) suck up every bit of data from e.g. email, phone, messaging apps, banks and end up with some privacy/security disaster

Anyway, there are all sorts of things you could do with that data, like trawling for novel links in your social graph.

Use b) with a local datastore and attached LLM and it sounds like a great solution to me. I would 100% give this a try if someone already has something rigged up on GitHub or try building it myself if not. Should be easy to run on a modern machine and I hear open source LLMs are constantly improving.

I'm leaning into this without a commercial consideration so I don't need to overthink it, it's just something I want for myself.

I agree point b is a minefield and given my info is on the system, I've got skin in the game to make it secure.

I'm doing something like this with https://histre.com/ I'd love to try your tool, and it would also be fun to chat about this if you like (k@histre.com)

I've been doing something similar based off of what I've been calling "intentionally overspaced repetition". I'm interested as well in how you're going about it.

I'd love to talk more with people who have done work in this space. Drop me an email at "jb at kulor dot com" and I'll explain more.

Hi, I really need something like this. I work on simultaneous engagements (mgmt. consulting) and travel substantially. This would help me organize better. Please let me know if I can try it.

Hi, drop me an email at "jb at kulor dot com" and I'll share details. Not ready to publicise the project.