I built Links because I was sick of trying to do serious research across a mess of tabs, notes, PDFs, screenshots, saved links, transcripts, and half-finished ideas. Links is a fully open-source, local-first AI research workspace built around private project spaces called pots. You can capture material, organise it, chat against it, run deeper research workflows, and let the system help surface summaries, entities, links, patterns, and follow-up questions — without building your workflow on top of a black-box cloud product. What makes it different: fully open source local-first / privacy-respecting pot-based isolation for separate projects, cases, or research threads AI as a structured layer on top of your data, not a replacement for the source material built for real research and investigation workflows, not just generic chatbot use It’s still evolving, but a lot already works and I’ve put a stupid amount of time into building it. If you care about private AI workflows, research tooling, knowledge systems, or just want to see a different direction from the usual “upload your brain to our servers” model, take a look. Would genuinely love feedback, bug reports, ideas, and contributors.

Links Local First AI Memory Layer

Links is an agentic research collaboration tool.

Links is an agentic research collaboration tool.