pull down to refresh
Hold up. You take notes about private information you get from your neighbours over bbq? Do they know you're a spook? (I'm only half pulling your leg here; this is why I never tell anyone anything, because people cannot be trusted.)
a deep library of knowledge
This functional part I like (it's about the only functional part I can possibly like though, haha.) I made a datalake for this. It is like my personal knowledge base, indexed and with embeddings. I also should disclose that I rarely use it, but that's because I'm too busy to adapt it wider.
What it does not contain: private conversations, financials, sensitive stuff like PII, contacts and so on. Everything (=knowledge) could in theory be ingested, but I have thus far only fed it research and notes on that research, and all security review work I do regarding 3rd party apps on my phones (because that's more useful than grepping markdown.)
All private, selfhosted, on-prem everything.
This technical part I like. It's the only way.
Some people might not be able to take advantage of that. I have all kinds of information in my Emails, texts, journals and photos. Maybe you do not care and that's okay.
I'm having BBQ with the neighbors this evening - Hey Siri did the neighbor go to MIT or to Berkley, I think I journaled it down last bbq summer. Planing a vacation to Italy - Hey Siri was my last trip to Rome in 2016 or 2018, I took photos for sure. I bought this exact same pair of shoes last year - hey Siri how much did it cost back then, I know it's somewhere in my emails.
To spin this a little further - I really like the idea of my home and my family having an AI that is deeply ingrained in our family culture. Everything selfhosted and everything peculiar to us. With a deep library of knowledge. All private, selfhosted, on-prem everything.