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Summon it with a keystroke, throw in anything you want to remember or ask your own memory. A local LLM agent that restructures your knowledge into a vectorized DB. fully private, zero cloud.

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Lore – Local AI thought capture and recall that runs on your machine

by ErezShahaf·Mar 17, 2026·3 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

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Yet another local AI notes app when Obsidian plugins and Mem already exist.

Strengths
  • •Global shortcut system tray integration for quick capture without context switching
  • •Fully local with Ollama and LanceDB means zero cloud dependency or API costs
  • •Automatic input classification into thoughts, questions, todos, and instructions
Weaknesses
  • •Local AI note-taking is extremely crowded with no clear differentiation from existing tools
  • •Early version with minimal stars suggests unproven reliability and limited community
Category
AI/ML
Target Audience

Developers and knowledge workers wanting private note-taking

Similar To

Obsidian with AI plugins · Mem · Rewind

Post Description

I built Lore because I kept losing knowledge — curl commands, quick notes from standups, and that one thing I told myself I'd remember.

It lives in the system tray, a global shortcut pops it up, you type naturally, and it stores or retrieves automatically. Everything runs locally via Ollama + LanceDB — no cloud, no API keys. It classifies your input (thought, question, todo, instruction) and uses a RAG pipeline to answer recall queries from your own stored context.

It's free and open source under MIT license, and even though its in very early version me and my friends have been using it for a while and we can't live without it. Would love to hear what you think about it

https://github.com/ErezShahaf/Lore Stars would appreciated :)

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