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Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by outside415 »

reustle wrote: post #122
Yeroc wrote: post #120

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values: - Name: Claude AI - URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s - Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut) Now from the URL bar you can type: ai For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/…

This doesn't seem to work for me. I'm getting "%s" as the initial prompt, even though the text is properly displaying in the URL. Almost seems like an issue on the Claude side.

worked fine for me on google chrome by setting it up as a search engine/site search.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by thomassmith65 »

yawnxyz wrote: post #116

I'm still waiting for the ability to change my email address :/

I'm still waiting for the ability to change my email address...

...and also to log on without visiting an AlphaGoogle domain.

It speaks poorly of Anthropic that their 1FA login requires a third party.

Then again, Google isn't exactly a 3PP in relation to Anthropic, more of a 2½PP.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by lurking_swe »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #119

Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives. [1] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

this is the best app i’ve found so far, better than anything else. Unfortunately it’s not open source and is only free for personal use.

It has web search and RAG that actually works properly out of the box. No fiddling with 100 settings.

https://msty.app/

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by tempaccount420 »

notatoad wrote: post #106

if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app. i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.

A desktop app that renders a website can still be useful if it exposes native APIs to the website.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by punkspider »

lurking_swe wrote: post #133
zaptheimpaler wrote: post #119

Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives. [1] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

this is the best app i’ve found so far, better than anything else. Unfortunately it’s not open source and is only free for personal use. It has web search and RAG that actually works properly out of the box. No fiddling with 100 settings. https://msty.app/

I agree, I'm also firmly convinced it's the best. Until a month ago it has some bugs I disagreed with some design choices, but since 1-2 weeks ago it's the absolute best I've ever used and have easily convinced others to use it.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by bergheim »

notatoad wrote: post #106

if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app. i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.

Uuuh.. so take all my data, as long as it's native?

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by notatoad »

tempaccount420 wrote: post #134
notatoad wrote: post #106

if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app. i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.

A desktop app that renders a website can still be useful if it exposes native APIs to the website.

does this do that?

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by user3939382 »

Yeroc wrote: post #120

For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values: - Name: Claude AI - URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s - Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut) Now from the URL bar you can type: ai For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/…

Entries like these should be submitted to the MyCroft search database.

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by grantcarthew »

I'm using AnythingLLM for this now. https://anythingllm.com/

MIT License on GitHub

This week it got the X.ai API added which is what I'm using. Grok is not as good as Claude or ChatGPT yet, but don't bet against Elon.

https://x.com/ServeTheHome/status/1850917031421399543

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253

It's the desktop solution I've been looking for. If you have a heap of prompts, you can create a Workspace for each. Super easy.

Here's my prompts if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/grantcarthew/notes/tree/main/Prompts

I only have two minor complaints with AnythingLLM: 1. No light mode (why does everyone want dark mode, it sucks for anyone older than 30) 2. It's electron

Edit: replaced cluster link with source (I think)

Re: Claude for Desktop

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Post by iamjackg »

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #119

Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives. [1] https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

I'm a very, very happy user of TypingMind. It's not free, but it's worth the (one-time) license cost in my opinion. It has support for multiple providers, plugins, "agents" (pre-set templates), chat grouping, import/export, automatic syncing across devices, etc.

https://github.com/TypingMind/typingmind https://www.typingmind.com/

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