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AI · September 23, 2024

Selectric - docs & mail search for MacOS

Outlook/Gmail/Drive search that works! Free & 100% private

Selectric - docs & mail search for MacOS launched on September 23, 2024 with 5 votes, #2,535 of 5,281 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

What it does

Selectric is a unified search app for all your mails, cloud storage and Slack accounts. Now all your data is a keyboard shortcut away from any app, anytime. Selectric is 100% private. Your data is stored on your local Mac and nothing leaves your computer.

Windows version coming 2025. Sign up and get free Premium for three months when we launch! Every user has their personal index unique to them, generated only from data they have access to. No risk of information leakage from LLM jailbreaks or prompting Your data never leaves your infrastructure and nothing is ever stored outside your environment. Your data is never used to train AI models. The average user saves 2 hours weekly with Selectric. That's over 100 productive hours gained annually per employee. Zero configuration needed. Get started in seconds with transparent pricing and no pushy sales calls. Based on the context provided, there are several payment confirmation emails from…from selectric.io

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