AI Interaction with (all) Notes
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Joshua Harper
One of the best features of Mem.ai is the ability to ask the AI questions and have it answer using your library of notes. As a PhD student with thousands of notes, this feature would be indispensable and absolutely worth the money to me. It would be great if you could chat with Capacities AI and receive responses using the content of your notes across your Capacities library. For example, if you could ask the AI to consolidate and create bullet point highlights of all of your notes about a particular subject.
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Oliver Bogler
I wonder if in this context, part of the plan might be to give users the option to share our Capacities data with other services? For example, with NotbookLM from Google, or other AI agents being built everywhere? Right now the rapid pace of development all over the AI space (which is awesome) seems to be leading to a user experience of many additional silos. It would be nice to grant such integrations to allow users to chose their 'AI front end' of choice (I am not a developer, so please excuse my imprecise use of language).
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Oleksandr Ponomarenko
I think that people treat AI like some kind of silver bullet. It wouldn't make you smarter and organized by querying all your notes for you, because thinking part human still needs to do manually. There is no point in adding AI features for the sake of AI features. Better spend this time polishing the app, making the user experience as smooth as possible, and maximizing the performance of the app. That would be a lot more valuable in the long term, than some AI hype that will end the same as the dotcom crisis. Otherwise, you will end up as Mem.ai, with a lot of promises of a bright AI future, but failed in so basic things like a good text editor or dark theme.
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Juan Alegre
This would make a great difference! I totally support this
michael_v_h
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Ai capacity to search within
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Blake Stockton
Love the product and the direction. I am wondering if there is a plan to implement something similar to Notion or Mem that harnesses Ai to also search within notes? I love the idea of summaries or collation of ideas on the go (not the same as queries that requires the admin of setting it up first).
Is this possible?
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Chris Mason
+1 for Ai semantic search, relevant notes & ability to chat with an Ai about all of my notes data in Capacities.
However personally, my biggest priority is the ability to use an Ai without worrying about the privacy & security of my personal data & private notes.
Especially when it comes to indexing privacy sensitive notes about health, legal confidentiality, etc. I believe it is vital that we (eventually) have an option to use an Ai without sacrificing our privacy & data security.
So if for example you can give us an option to use an Offline LLM as the Ai, or perhaps even an option to use a self-hosted Ai as an option, for those of us who require this & are willing to go the extra mile to set that up.
This is the #1 thing I’ve been looking for in all PKMS apps I’ve been testing & evaluating, and unfortunately many of them fall short in this arena, as most of them send data to OpenAi.
Personally when it comes to a privacy policy: “no knowledge”, “E2EE encryption” and “zero trust” are the key philosophies that I look for. I don’t want to just “trust” that a company won’t misuse my data, or “assume” that they are prioritizing their data security in a way that protects my data. I know nothing is 100% secure when it comes to data on the internet, which is why there are many offline-first solutions out there for this reason… but if I’m going to use an online service, then I believe it is important to provide verifiable & audited proof that there is no knowledge E2EE encryption & a zero trust philosophy when it comes to the privacy & security of a user’s private data. (And if not, then to at least give users the option to handle their data security via a self-hosted or offline solution)
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Juan Alegre
Chris Mason right. Simply having the option to choose which notes will be indexed by AI and which ones will not would solve the privacy issue that this great idea might present.
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Memos Salinas
I think a big big value and use of AI, it would be to look for "connections" (similar content) when you start writing, because for me the most valuable thing of any PKM app, is to have a good output, so it would be amazing to have an assitant that is looking in all your objects, similar content so you can citate or fundament your words. This will be a feature on the "kortexco" app, if you want to take any inspiration.
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Memos Salinas see also this discussion in the Canny AI-forum:
below I am pasting two of the recent improvements of Reflect.
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because I am in the 'feature chase / parity / copy' department; but bec I deem these two particulars an intelligent / helpful way of leveraging LLM technology in PKM contexts
(and actually I have argued for things in similar direction).allowing myself to quote the 'Productivus'-blog on this, as its quite a good characterization:
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Semantic search
→ Reflect can now find notes that have a similar meaning to what you wrote in the search bar. This means that you no longer need to query your notes with the exact keywords; Reflect will try to understand the meaning of what you wrote and compare it against the meaning of each note.•
Similar notes
→ with similar notes, Reflect will now propose similar notes to the one you are in. This is the next evolution of backlinks, and it’s incredible. Serendipity is becoming easier than ever.M
Memos Salinas
vision assemblies thats a really good blog! congrats, and yes exactly the semantic search and similar notes are the features that are now exploding the capabilities on these apps.
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vision assemblies
thx for the headsup, Memos Salinas !
maybe would be interestimg to hear / discuss more about the specific way other apps leverage LLMs for this kind of 'related search'.
I was speculating on the advantages to have a 'related'-function via 'AI' that is not 100% on autopilot, but can be steered according to user needs:
also things line the 'near'-search function of (Mac-)apps like DevonThink + FoxTrot Search come to mind.
… maybe helpful to discuss more in depth either here or in the Discord-AI channel...?!
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Perceval Fayon
This will be a game changer of course, enabling the AI assistant to readthrough and query through the knowledge graph produced within a Capacities workspace is massive. Mem.ai does it now but Capacities has so much more to offer with its simplicity, modularity, graph view, and an epic mission and core values. I believe you guys can be the future of knowledge management for those that want to do things in a pure way. The capabilities it would need as far as I can imagine include: Translating aa input question into a graph query (I am not sure what Graph Database technology you are using - if it is Neo4j that would be cypher right?). Reading the concerned documents and basing their answer on those concerned documents. What could also be cool is providing a direct link to the documents which were used to produce the answer. This supports traceability of information which I think is vital especially when it comes to information generated by AI.
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Use Page or Spaces as knowledge base for AI Chat
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Tim Gray
I want to be able to ask AI about the pages in my space. For instance, summarize a set of documents into a new document or use AI as an advanced search feature. Once I get knowledge added to Capacities, I want to be able to use AI to access it.
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Thierry Sampaio
This feature is definitely a priority. It could be a game-changer for Capacities.
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Roger Wong
I just completed an evaluation of Obsidian and Notion specifically because they both have features where you can ask the AI questions and it'll query your entire space. Obsidian has this via a plugin called Khoj. And Notion has this with a feature called Q&A. I think in 2024, this is critical for an app like Capacities.
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