Very cool! Index my Google Email, Drive, and Calendar. "Find the receipt for that TV I bought from Best Buy 7 years ago."
Launch HN: Zenfetch (YC W23) – Turn notes/browser history into an AI assistant
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#13Fast forward to today, I've been using Zenfetch for a few months now. Basically, everything I read, or wish I had the time to read / watch (they support Youtube too) gets saved on my Zenfetch library.
Being able to ask for summaries of stuff you are browsing in real time is great for picking up new knowledge.
Chatting with your entire library with 1,500+ saved articles and drawing correlations between different subjects + never forgetting anything, is next level.
Don't be the 'bookmarking this for later' guy.
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#16Interesting. Just for context Autonomy (now part of HP) built this cool app called Kenjin back in the 90s it used Bayesian inference applied to your browsing session to suggest content.
As a statistician by training, I appreciate how the traditional inference techniques were helpful way before LLMs became mainstream for these tasks :)
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#17I have been building something similar [1] with the goal to make it easy to save and share things you find. I will not use SaaS for saving content anymore as I find myself wanting to build larger compositions of work and dealing with APIs just isn't it. Maybe the SaaS works today, but you will always end up wanting a plaintext, offline-first experience. [1] https://github.com/justshare-io/justshare
This looks cool! A few notes on our approach to Zenfetch: 1. We're not trying to become your personal knowledge management solution, we want to be the layer on top that helps you retrieve and use the knowledge you've stored. 2. The biggest reason we don't do this locally is we've found hosted models are much more powerful for the knowledge retrieval and synthesis use cases. However. we do hope to move more local over…
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#18When will this be available on safari?
Is that your browser of choice?
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
This looks cool! A few notes on our approach to Zenfetch: 1. We're not trying to become your personal knowledge management solution, we want to be the layer on top that helps you retrieve and use the knowledge you've stored. 2. The biggest reason we don't do this locally is we've found hosted models are much more powerful for the knowledge retrieval and synthesis use cases. However. we do hope to move more local over…
Depending on who your market is (sales leads, researchers, developers) it may not make sense to support local/OSS. Posting this on hn will always bring a bearded dev, me, into the comments to rant about the way things should be, but this doesn't always reflect the path to product success. Right now your tool is too general, find a use case and crush it. Find some inspiration from this ext: https://chrome.google.com/w…
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#20How do you see this comparing to Pocket, Readwise, and Dewey? I think many Read Later apps will add AI search on top