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Re: Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

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This is a product that just makes sense to me - well done on picking a great problem to solve and communicating it so well. What are the plans for monetization?

Thanks for the kind words. We plan to offer an account-based option for users that want zero setup, with managed integrations and a choice of LLMs.

Nice

Re: Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

#42
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My point was to say that your idea should work because today's models are capable enough. If I get some time later today, I'll post my scripts.

Also interested to hear about your Logseq scripts and the plugins you use as well

Yes me too

Re: Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

#43

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This was something that I was working on for a personal solution ( flagging various contradictory threads ). I suspect it is a common use case.

That’s interesting. Would be curious to know what types of contradictions you were looking at and how you approached flagging them.

As a corporate drone, keeping track of various internal contradictions in emails is the name of the game ( one that my former boss mastered, but in a very manual way ). In a very boring way, he was able to say: today you are saying X, on date Y you actually said Z.

His manual approach, which won't work if applied directly ( or more specifically, it will, but it would be unnecessarily labor intensive and on big enough set prohibitively so ), because it would require constant filtering re-evaluating all emails, can still be done though.

As for exact approach, its a slightly longer answer, because it is a mix of small things.

Since I try to track, which llm excel at which task ( and assign tasks based on those tracking scores ). It may seem irrelevant at first, but small things like: 'can it handle structured json' rubric will make a difference.

Then we get to the personas that process the request, and those may make a difference in a corporate environment. Again, as silly as its sounds, you want to effectively have a Dwight and Jim ( yes, it is an office reference ) looking at those ( more if you have a use case that requires more complex lens crafting ) as will both be looking for different things. Jim and Dwight would add their comments noting the sender, what they seem to try to do and issues they noted ( if any ).

Notes from Jim and Dwight for a given message is passed to a third persona, which will attempt to reconcile it noting discrepancies between Jim and Dwight and checking against other like notes.

...and so it goes.

As for flagging itself, that is a huge topic just by itself. That said, at least in its current iteration, I am not trying to do anything fancy. Right now, it is almost literally, if you see something contradictory ( X said Y then, X says Y now ), show it in a summary. It doesn't solve for multiple email accounts, personas or anything like that.

Anyway, hope it helps.

Re: Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s interesting. Would be curious to know what types of contradictions you were looking at and how you approached flagging them.

As a corporate drone, keeping track of various internal contradictions in emails is the name of the game ( one that my former boss mastered, but in a very manual way ). In a very boring way, he was able to say: today you are saying X, on date Y you actually said Z. His manual approach, which won't work if applied directly ( or more specifically, it will, but it would be unnecessarily labor intensive and on big enough…

This was a really interesting read. Thanks for the detailed breakdown and the office references. The multi-persona approach is interesting, almost like a mixture of experts. The corporate email contradiction use case is not something we had in mind, but I can see how flagging those inconsistencies could be valuable!

Re: Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

#46

It would be fantastic if this supported email and calendar providers that weren't Google. Supporting protocols like IMAP or JMAP alongside CalDav would be a fantastic step, as well as open source note-taking apps like Hyprnote would be neat.

yes - indeed, would love to see generic IMAP support.

Re: Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

#50
This is exactly why I am betting on open source for the AI future. Local first, code I can audit, no black box APIs that change their terms overnight. The future of knowledge work is not locked behind some corporate API with rate limits and price hikes. It is tools like this that keep the user in control.
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