That's right, it's Ragtime!

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joplin lets you upload a large number of documents and talk to them using a large-language model, but unlike other systems, this one should work entirely on your laptop computer. This means it's completely private, and your private documents, notes, and data can all stay, well, private. This kind of system is called retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG (hence the name Joplin).

1. The ability to create Markdown notes in the front-end and save them into the database as if they were new documents.
2. The ability to select which source documents or type of source documents you want to include in your RAG task.

Install ollama (instructions here).

Run:

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

npm install

ollama pull mistral

python db/connection.py

Make sure that ollama is running.

This will open up an Electron app:

NODE_ENV=development npm run dev

To run in total development mode:

source .venv/bin/activate
npm run chroma

source .venv/bin/activate
npm run server

npm run vite

Try:

source .venv/bin/activate
playwright install
python scripts/convert-zotero-to-pdf.py path/to/zotero/export path/to/output/dir

• Enable the ability to just query for similar notes (just semantic search).