Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook

Summary

Deta Surf: Your AI Notebook Deta Surf is an AI notebook that brings all your files and the web directly into your stream of thought. It’s meant for simultaneous research and thinking that minimizes the grunt work: manually searching, opening windows & tabs, scrolling, copying and pasting into a document editor. Surf is primarily built in Svelte, TypeScript and Rust, runs on MacOS, Windows & Linux, stores data locally in open formats, and is open source. Motivation Most applications are focused on a single task, or a single media type: notes, websites, or PDFs. Real thinking requires juggling media across sources to make connections and synthesize ideas. We want to help people think better, across all their media. Surf is built to be personal and open, in service of the user. This means local first data, open data formats, open source, and openness with respect to AI models. Read more. Installation Checkout the GitHub releases for the latest stable version of Surf for MacOS, Windows and Linux. You can also download Surf with some managed & additional features (e.g. AI) from the Deta website. That version is subject to different terms. For building from source and local development, see CONTRIBUTING.md. TL;DR - Things to try YouTube Notes: visit a YouTube video and ask a question PDF Notes: open a PDF and ask a question Create an applet: use the "app generation" tool and ask for an app Notes that search the web: use the "web search" tool and ask a question with "search" in it Features Multi-Media Library & Notebooks Store almost any media in a private library on your computer, in an open and transparent format. Support for local files, sites & links from the web (YouTube, Tweets & more), or create media directly in Surf. Organize this library into Notebooks. Open and use much of your library offline. Use your library to power Surf’s AI features. Surf's library is built on a local storage engine called SFFS (Surf Flat File System), which stores data in open and transpa...