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Life & fun · January 23, 2024

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Nomad Hypertext, a local first writing app built around semantic search

Nomad Hypertext is a writing app built around semantic search. It lets you see connections between your ideas in real time as your write - click on the # symbol next to a paragraph, and similar ideas you've written about in the past will show in the sidebar. This helps you spot both recurring themes and unexpected links between seemingly different ideas. It does this by generating embeddings using a local model (supabase's gte-small model) and finds similar posts with @OramaSearch, a local vector DB.

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Nomad Hypertext is a local-first writing app that uses semantic search to help writers discover connections between their ideas. As users write, they can click a # symbol next to any paragraph to see similar ideas from their past writing displayed in a sidebar. The app identifies both recurring themes and unexpected links between different topics using embeddings generated by a local model and a local vector database. It's designed for writers who want to explore patterns and relationships within their own work.

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