Stella

Local natural language search across all your files

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What it does

You know the file exists. Spotlight can't find it. Stella can. Just describe it, "my cheat sheet for the final exam," "the product spec from last week's meeting" and Stella finds it. Then drag it straight into Gmail, open it, or launch any app from the same bar. One shortcut for your whole Mac. Free. Private. No account. Bad filenames welcome.

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