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This seems like a really neat tool, nice work! I wish I had a use case for it- any plans for pdf or text file support? I’d love a local assistant that allowed f
by givinguflac 2y ago
This seems like a really neat tool, nice work! I wish I had a use case for it- any plans for pdf or text file support? I’d love a local assistant that allowed for parsing my pdfs and text files the same way.
- hendrikvp 2y agoThis is what Spotlight on macOS is doing for all files by default, just in case you didn't know?
- HKH2 2y agoIt will only find exact matches though. No synonyms etc.
- hendrikvp 2y agoThat's right. Though, I expect that this may change with the next macOS version this year. They (probably) have the knowledge how to apply a good embedding model on all text files, and their hardware is capable of doing it in an efficient way.
- correa_brian 2y agoThat's cool. I didn't know spotlight did that. Does it work for files that aren't in iCloud?
- dylan604 2y agoIt works on local files yes
- thejohnconway 2y agoDoes it? I thought spotlight was basically a text search. I didn’t think you could search for concepts.
- correa_brian 2y agoThanks! I've thought about it. The only thing stopping me is the size of the app. Adding a model to handle text would make the app much bigger. Long-term I'd like to support this, maybe by letting users add/delete models as needed.
- dylan604 2y agoCan you design in it such a way that it only downloads the model if the user specifically enables that feature? Add a note along the lines of "A one time additional download is required to enable this feature" or some such, and I think it would allow you to expand the features if you wanted while keeping the initial download smaller. I might be weird in thinking this would be acceptable. Also, would be appreciated that I didn't download something I was never using.
- correa_brian 2y agoYeah, I think that could be a good way to handle it. Thanks for the suggestion!