Launching today
Lore
Cursor for your memory. 100% private, open-source & free.
62 followers
Cursor for your memory. 100% private, open-source & free.
62 followers
Lore is a lightweight "second brain" that lives in your system tray. Summon it with a keystroke to capture ideas, notes, or tasks instantly. Why Lore? 🛡️ 100% Private: Your data never leaves your machine. No API keys, no tracking. 🧠 Local AI: Powered by Ollama + LanceDB for secure, offline-first RAG. ⚡ Instant Recall: Ask questions in plain language and get answers from your own history. Own your memory. 100% local. Zero cloud.
This is a thoughtful direction. The idea of having an AI that understands your own notes and history is powerful, but the privacy concern is exactly what stops a lot of people from fully trusting these tools. Keeping everything local makes the whole product feel much more convincing.
Curious, what kind of users are connecting with Lore the fastest so far, people using it for work knowledge or more personal thinking and journaling?
@akshay_kumar_hireid
Appreciate that, that’s exactly the problem I felt too.
Up until today I have only shared it within my group of developer friends, and due to the nature of it being open source and available through GitHub I would expect that at least at the beginning it will be mostly for tech savvy users.
But I can definitely see people use it more like a thinking space for journaling, planning, just dumping thoughts and then querying them later. I think that’s where it gets really powerful once people trust it.
ngl the "privacy tax" line hits. a lot of note and memory tools sound cool till you realize you’re basically handing over your whole brain to some cloud service. keeping it free, local and open-source makes this feel way more honest.
also curious, what made you choose the system tray quick capture style instead of going for a bigger full app first?
@nayan_surya98
haha yeah that’s exactly the feeling I had
I went with the tray + quick capture approach because I didn’t want it to feel like “opening another app to do work”. The goal is more like: it’s always there, you drop things into it quickly, and move on.
@vouchy
Hey. Yeah, honestly it wasn’t one big moment, it was a pattern. I’d write something personal or even just messy/raw thinking, and there was always that small hesitation before hitting send or save.
That hesitation is what I call the “privacy tax”, it changes how you think and what you’re willing to store. Lore is basically my attempt to remove that completely while improving the UX of knowledge management software, with a completely free and transparent product.
Love seeing more open-source approaches to personal knowledge management! The privacy angle is huge right now, especially with AI reading our notes. How are you handling syncing across devices while keeping everything 100% private?
@sai_tharun_kakirala In this version there isn’t any syncing going on between device, but that’s an interesting point.
I think that we only way to do that would be either p2p which wouldn’t work because not all device are always online, perhaps encrypting the data and giving only the user the key.
Honestly, not sure what I would choose, but I’ll make sure to keep the privacy of the user. Currently the software makes 0 request to the internet outside of downloading the models when you request that.