Goldfish - Press Option. It knows your work and replies like you
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Most AI tools make you explain the context before they can help. Goldfish already has it. It privately remembers what you’ve been working on across your Mac, then helps you write better from any app. Press Option in a text field to draft replies, summarize threads, rewrite sentences, or recall important details from your recent work without copying, pasting, or re-explaining the whole backstory.
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The challenge with AI memory is often trust and relevance. How do you prevent important details from getting buried as more conversations accumulate?
Goldfish
@harini_mukesh This is basically the core design problem for Goldfish.
We don’t treat memory as one giant chat history. It’s split into layers: the immediate screen context, recent activity, longer-term summaries, and entity/project-level memory. When you press Option, Goldfish first anchors on what you’re doing right now, then pulls in only the memory that looks relevant to that surface.
Important details should also become easier to retrieve over time, not harder. So instead of relying on raw conversation logs forever, Goldfish distills repeated people, projects, preferences, and commitments into more structured memory.
And there are controls for excluding things you don’t want remembered, because trust only works if the user can shape the memory.
@kar_re This makes a lot of sense. The layered memory approach feels much more practical than treating everything as one long chat history. User controls for memory seem like a must-have for trust.
Goldfish
@harini_mukesh exactly, user controls are non-negotiable here. People need to be able to exclude apps, domains, and sensitive surfaces, otherwise the product starts feeling creepy instead of useful.
@harini_mukesh yes, exactly what Kaspian said. We keep memory useful by ranking what matters right now, not just what exists somewhere in the past.
What have been your strongest use cases so far? 🐠
Goldfish takes precious cognitive load out of so many of my boring repetitive tasks in sales. Congrats on the launch team! 🙌
Goldfish
@axel_larsson1 thank you Axel, really glad it’s helping with the boring sales stuff. any workflow where it has saved you the most time so far?
Early access communities can make or break a product, and Goldfish looks like it's creating a meaningful experience for its first users. Looking forward to following the journey!
Goldfish
@1mirul Thank you so much! I agree and we've tried to optimize it for being as useful as possible for our early users! Feel free to test it out and let me know if you have any feedback! 🐠
@1mirul thank you, really appreciate it. early users are everything for a product like this, so means a lot that it comes across 🐠
Normain
I think I'm actually going to use this. For me, that is the highest grade I can give.
Goldfish
@kalle_hansson Love this, that's the best kind of feedback. Hope it sticks 🐠
@kalle_hansson That is AWESOME, what are your favourite use cases with it?
Really enjoying Goldfish so far and is genuinely useful, especially not having to copy, paste, and re-explain everything every time. It's been a game changer for my LinkedIn outreach. Great job Joel and Kaspian!!
@daniel_yamamoto Thank you Daniel!! LinkedIn outreach is such a perfect use case for Goldfish, because the context is always spread across profiles, messages, tabs, and previous conversations. Really happy it’s saving you from the copy/paste loop 🐠 How many hours a week (and mental load) do you think it saves you?
Huge congrats on the launch 🐠
What really lands for me is that Goldfish shows up exactly where the work is happening. I’ve been using it to write and rewrite emails and LinkedIn messages, but also to make sense of complex topics while I’m reading through them at the same time. That cross-app context is the thing that turns AI from a separate chatbot into something genuinely useful in the flow of work.
The onboarding was super smooth too, and the local-first memory with explicit privacy controls feels essential for a product that sits this close to messy, sensitive work.
Excited to keep using it and see where it goes!
@m_jacquillat thank you Marie, really appreciate this. the cross-app bit is the whole reason we built it this way, and privacy has to be first-class when the product is sitting this close to real work 🐠
Goldfish
@m_jacquillat Thank you so much!! The cross-app part is exactly where it starts feeling less like a chatbot and more like part of the OS.
do you feel it gets the context wrong sometime? would love to learn more!
BetterClaw
Love the Option key shortcut, feels so friction less. How does it handle privacy with remembering work across apps? That balance of helpful and private is the hard part to get right. Excited to try it.
Goldfish
@shubham4real Thanks Shubham! Privacy is the main thing we designed around here.
Goldfish stores memory locally on your Mac, not in a cloud backend we can browse. You can pause capture whenever you want, exclude specific apps or domains, and delete stored history too. AI calls also have zero data retention.
That balance is definitely the hard part, so would love to hear where it feels too much or not enough once you try it 🐠
@shubham4real al thank you Shubham! The shortcut is only useful if people can actually trust it.
The way we think about it is: context should be helpful in the moment, controllable by the user, and easy to turn off when something is sensitive 🐠
This looks really interesting. My English is not very good, so I couldn’t fully follow the demo video. Subtitles would help a lot, especially for users like me in China. Funny enough, Goldfish is helping me write this sentence right now haha. I’d still love to try Goldfish and share feedback.
Goldfish
@xiya_ai thank you for the heads up, that’s super useful feedback. Subtitles are definitely a good point. Really cool that Goldfish helped you write the comment too haha 🐠
Subtitles will definitely come in the upcoming updates!
@xiya_ai so cool that Goldfish helped write this haha. and yes, subtitles are a great point, we should make the demo easier to follow for non-native English speakers.
would love for you to try it and tell us what works best for you 🐠
@joel_edholm I’ve tried Typeless before, and I think their onboarding is very simple and easy to follow. Just a small suggestion for Goldfish: could there be an option to skip the intro video?
Goldfish
@xiya_ai There is a "skip onboarding"-menu setting when you start it! :- D
Congrats on the launch you guys! Absolutely loved the onboarding and really enjoying getting to know the product so far.
The Option key functionality is really great & seamless (but is there a way to change it to the other Option key....? apparently, I use the right Option key a lot and not always for Goldfish!) 🐠
Goldfish
@josephinedt Hi Josephine!
Thank you so much, I'm happy to hear that! 🙏
Yes, you can rebind the option key to whatever you want in the settings after the onboarding! Just press the settings->shortcuts page. There you can also enable transcription.
Have you found any specific use case that goldfish is extra suitable for? 🐠
@josephinedt Awesome to hear!! Yes you can change key in Settings under Shortcuts. What have you used it for the most?
Hey, Joel. I really appreciate your innovation. I was pleasantly surprised by your project—it’s actually amazing! However, I’m a bit worried about security. Since Goldfish can see everything in every app on my computer, what guarantees do I have that it’s not actually spying on me? For example, when I’m doing something very private, how can I be sure that the info won’t be accessed by Goldfish or even stolen by hackers? Otherwise, I’m really impressed by your creative mind!
Goldfish
@denzel_gota Hey Denzel! Thank you for your comment and I'm happy to hear that you're finding Goldfish useful!
I understand what you mean - no worries! So all context that goldfish collects is saved to a local database. The only time data is sent outside the computer is when you do inline rewrite or chat with the aquarium, or when generating wiki pages. This is sent to a LLM with zero data retention.
Goldfish comes with a large blacklist and you can ask goldfish to pause tracking at any time! you can also ask goldfish not to track certain pages/domains/windows and it will follow that.
The database will be encrypted as well so even if hackers get to the actual file on the filesystem, they cannot open it as its encrypted with your authentication.
I hope this answered some of your questions and that you feel more secure with using goldfish! Do you think it would help if this was shown during the onboarding?
@denzel_gota very fair question. This is top prio for us.
The short version: your memory stays on your Mac in a local database. We do not have a backend where we can browse your data, there is no cloud sync, and AI calls have zero data retention.
You can also pause capture whenever you want, exclude specific apps or domains so they never get remembered, and delete stored history.