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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)


Shameless plug: If you are on a Mac, check out RecurseChat: https://recurse.chat/

A few outstanding features:

- Fast: Import ChatGPT history, loads thousands of conversations at once.

- Floating Chat: spotlight / ChatGPT desktop app like floating window.

- Customization: You can add any OpenAI compatible API (including X.ai) as a model, and just edit the url/model id

- Chat with files: Not as complete as complete as a RAG solution for now, but we feature simplicity. Basically you can drag and drop PDF files onto a session or add files/folders to a model (like custom GPT) to start chatting.

- And, yes we support light mode! And several light mode code themes as well


I’m nearly 40 and I can’t use light mode anymore.

Judging from how many older coders use it I think it’s just you, mate.


No, it's related to Astigmatism. The eye lens gets distorted. Bright light shrinks the pupil, meaning the light goes through less of your lens and hence is not as distorted.

And?

You said: “ 1. No light mode (why does everyone want dark mode, it sucks for anyone older than 30)”

I’ve had astigmatism literally my entire life and, once again, have loved dark mode anywhere it’s been offered (except my Kindle, which just looks weird).

Every programmer over the age of 30 that I know uses dark mode exclusively, and there’s a reason companies offer it: it is widely used and demanded.

Acting everybody in the demographic of people over 30 feels the way you feel about it on account of their age is just laughable.


OK, you win.

Does it allow you to create custom agents like OpenAIs GPTs? I can't find it in the documentation.

That's what the "Workspaces" are. Create a workspace, go into the settings then "Chat Settings" and configure the Prompt. There are more configurations available.

I will have a look. Thanks!

You have to be psychotic to not use dark mode and prefer light.

I have an astigmatism and I prefer light mode because of it. Dark mode causes the letters to jump more and the optometrist agreed light mode is better for people with astigmatism and its a common issue.

You've gotta be nuts not to be psychotic in a world like this one.

haha, you guys.

These prompts are terrific, thank you!

Some haven't been updated for a while. Try the "software-evaluation.md" prompt, it's one of my best. I use it often. Use the bin/gp script to get them into your clipboard.

Is there something like AnythingLLM that is a Mac native application?

https://msty.app/

(Note: it has first class support for Obsidian.md vaults.)


The subject of the thread is "Claude for Desktop".

AnythingLLM supports Claude out of the box.

but it doesn't say "only Claude for desktop", which makes GP's comment relevant.

There are two killer features being no ads, and customise your search.

Don't want pinterest in your search results? Block it:

https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard


I discovered lsd because of this thread. It has a great tree output:

lsd --tree


Why is Anytype https://anytype.io/ not on this page somewhere? It should be.


I just whacked this together last night. I've been using it in another project but it was so useful that I wanted it as a standalone package.


I've been using Kagi since I could first get onto the product. As soon as it came out of Beta, I subscribed.

I had no idea how intrusive Google was. I love Google services. Google Cloud is far better than the others. That said, the search is just poison.

I now spend time looking at results, not searching for results.

I have to admit though, ChatGPT did make me consider dropping the subscription. Mr Chat has weakened the value of Kagi to me.

They have their own AI summarizer engine though: https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html


> Google Cloud is far better than the others.

Per their own documentation, Kagi servers are hosted on Google Cloud.


That in of itself isn't such a scary thing.

There's real restrictions, contractually, that Google has on accessing any data the a customer generates, and of which carry hefty fees for Google.

This is one of the reasons on why some Google products never launch with support for Workspace accounts. There's just too much red-tape that a team doesn't want to deal with.

Source and Disclaimer: I was a Technical Solutions Engineer for Google Cloud.


> I have to admit though, ChatGPT did make me consider dropping the subscription. Mr Chat has weakened the value of Kagi to me.

I felt the same, but I do still need web search, and I do still want it to be as good as possible, so it's still worth it to me.

And actually, as I type this I'm less sure about how much ChatGPT has reduced the value of web search for me. I start with ChatGPT for almost everything that's not "news". But I still frequently do web searches branching out from what I learned via ChatGPT. It's fewer total searches than I've done before, but each one might be more valuable. And since I'm flowing from one tool to another, not having to wade through ads and bad ui and SEO spam also becomes even more valuable.


As a subscriber to both ChatGPT and Kagi, agreed. You may be interested to know that Kagi also has https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt. It's been pretty good in my tests so far, nothing magical just fast and similar to a search input field.


That's a great suggestion @cosmaioan. I'm working on a Version 3 which will support SVG files. I might look in to adding this style of line. Thanks.


Thanks frantzme. I replied to your email however, for anyone else reading this, I don't have a Mac. That is a little of a handbrake.


Hi Omneity,

Isn't that just "Take Control"? Most video conferencing software packages have that feature. Zoom has an annotation feature.

I have some plans for it but none of them involve networking.


Hi Murple,

The Windows and Linux versions are the same code base. I originally had it as open source but decided not to keep it open.


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